GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1922, Page 1

GERMAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. GERMAN PAPER. .'Received this day at 8.30 a.in.) BERLIN, Sept. 14. Though the Reiehsbank is printing twenty thousand million paper marks weekly big employers are still unable to obtain sufficient to pay wages. Krupps have solved the difficulty by obtaining permission to print rou> hundred million marks limited to -two months currency. -Tile highest denomination is five hundred marks. The shortage is causing riots in Upper Silesia wherrt workers who ate not being paid, requisitioned food from the shops. A MOSCOW THEFT. BERLIN, Sept 13. Thieves broke into the historical museum of Moscow, stealing much valuable silver and precious stones. The Revolutionary Tribunal arrested the curator and secretaries. It was proved the Guards were drunk for two days continuously and the curator frequently demanded soberer custodians hut rather than risk the consequences of arresting the proletnrint guards ,thc Soviet authorities decided that the curator and secretaries must hear the blame. FOOD RIOTS. COLOGNE, Sept 13. Large Communist crowds invaded lloeham market, and overturned and plundered the stalls when .the owners refused to reduce prices. ,The police drove the marauders from the market. -Mohs then invaded the shops demanding lower prices Crowds gathered and speakers attempted to incite to violence. The police charged aiid dispersed them.

Similar demonstrations occurred in several Ruhr towns, where shopkeepers mostly shut lip their shops, though some timid ones sold goods below cost.