PICTURE OF MISERY
GERMAN POVERTY
WIDESPREAD DISTRESS
MILLIONS ON BELIEF
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 31st December, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 30th December. The "Daily Herald's" Berlin correspondent says that 20 million Germans are dragging out a- miserable existence on relief provided by the remaining twothirds of the population. The purchasing power of the masses has dwindled to the barest subsistence level, and they just manage to buy enough bread,- margarine, potatoes, and milk, with a little of the cheapest forms of meat once or twice weekly. Onethird of the unemployed relief is deducted for rent. The purchase of any clothing is impossible, while owing to recent cuts in wages thousands of workers are receiving a mere trifle above the unemployment relief standard. Middle-class people are reducing expenditure most drastically. The majority had to dismiss their maicls, who go to swell the ranks of the unemployed. ■ Many theatres, despite sweeping reductions in prices, had to close, and even the cheap cinemas are poorly attended.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 157, 31 December 1931, Page 8
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164PICTURE OF MISERY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 157, 31 December 1931, Page 8
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