GERMAN NEWS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. GERMAN FIASCO. BERLIN, Sept 3. Tlie popular craze of charging foreigners treble rates compared with local people, resulted in amazing scenes at tile opening of the winter season. The Opera Theatre resembled a 'frontier, placarded with notices: “Have your passports ready.” Many patrons brought military papers as well as passports, but unfortunately omitted any means of identification of lady friends. This resulted in exciting altercations, the attendants demanding positive proof that the lady in each case was the wife of her escort. Germans are so well drilled in obeying orders that many brought their marriage and birth certificates and even income tax papers. Those without papers underwent a searching ancestry examination unto the third generation: TTnfbrtunhtely fbr the liiailageimint vtrj : ft'w foreigners paid for seats and the expected rich harvest proved a fiasco.
WIRELESS NEWS. BERLIN, Sept. 3. Wireless telephony is making rapid strides in Germany. The Post Office is hiring out sets and arranging to supply subscribers in 140 cities with a daily service of biisness news; also broadcasting important world news.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1922, Page 2
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180GERMAN NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1922, Page 2
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