TRADE REVIVAL IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 300, 15 September 1919, Page 5

TRADE REVIVAL IN GERMANY

DECLINE OF THE STRIKE FEVER. London, September 11. Mr. Renwick, the "Daily Chronicle's" Berlin correspondent, writes that, after two months' absence, it is interesting to note the changes in Germany, Industrial productivity is increasing, the strike fever lias declined, and the whole situation is becoming more stable. Meat is more plentiful, at 9s, a pound. The great improvement in the amount and quality of the articles being sold Bhows that it is evident industrial Germany is putting her shoulder to the wheel. Stocks of crockery, glass,'and furniture are large. Clothes are still a difficulty, but the stores of; haberdashery, gloves, and other articles are abundant. During the last'two or three months Germany has made great strides- in replenishing the home markets, which is a preliminary to attacking tile foreign markets. The depreciation of the mark will tell seriously, but representatives of American banks and other Jnancial concerns have already arrived, jnd are making arrangements which will send up the mark with a 'bound. A cotton bank ia being established at Bremen, undaf American control, to hasten the import of cotton. Big shipments of coal from America are also being arranged.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. GAMBLING BANNED. (Rec. September 13, 5.5 p.m.) Berlin, September 12. Herr Noske has banned public and private gambling in Germany.— Ihb Times."