PLIGHT OF GREECE
NEW YORK, June 17.
As the result of German occupation, Greece is suffering the worst monetary inflation in history, in addition to extreme starvation, reports the “New York Times” Cairo correspondent. The pound sterling, worth 90 drachmas before the Axis invasion, is now worth 2,000,006 drachma. Current prices in Athens are: A newspaper, 200,000 drachmas; one cigarette, 20,000; a pair of shoes, 500,000; a loaf of bread, 2000. Housewives carry money in huge suiteases. On? recently bought a pound of meat and found the money she paid for it weighed more than the purchase.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 224, 19 June 1944, Page 5
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97PLIGHT OF GREECE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 224, 19 June 1944, Page 5
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