GLIMPSE OF THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY
COTTON FAMINE AT HAND
' ■ London, March 81. "A Neutral. Correspondent" writes: "Very little of the great defeat of the German army, on the Marne is known to the people, owing to the censorship. Tho former spirit of.German boastfulnees has been toned' down; yet there are no untoward signs, that confidence has bean shaken.
"A cotton famine is approachiug. The mills are working half-time, but the reserves are not exhausted.-. Many factories lacking cotton have been closed, but there is little unemployment, the manufacture of war materials, tho production of. which has doubled and trebled, absorbing all non-combatants, who are paid at a low rate for long hours. Howover, they do not complain, because they consider they are working towards a final victory for Gormony. "Only with intense care and economy can. the flour supply last till the next harvest. ' -n
"At Lubeck ;he shipbuilding' yards sue concentrating on the construction of submarines, which, a naval officer states, show many improvements. The newest and best typd ha 6 not been utilised."—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" services.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2426, 3 April 1915, Page 8
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179GLIMPSE OF THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2426, 3 April 1915, Page 8
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