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. OF GERMANY’S DESTITUTE. TWENTY MILLIONS IN DIRE NEED (United Press Association.—By ElectricTelegraph.—Copyright.) Received this day at 1.5 p.m.> ' LONDON, December 30. The “Daily Herald’s” Berlin correspondent says that" twenty million Germans are dragging out a miserable existence on relief, provided by the remaining two thirds 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.
One third of the unemployed relief is deducted for rent. The purchase of any clothing is impossible, while, owing to the recent cuts in wages, thousands of workers are receiving a mere trifle above the unemployment relief standard.
The middle class people are reducing expenditure most drastically, and the mnjortiy have had to dismiss their maids who go to swell the ranks of the unemployed. Many theatres, despite sweeping reductions in prices, had to close. Even cheap cinemas are poorly attended. 1
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1931, Page 6
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