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ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA SEEM PARADISE TO UNITED STATES. MISERY ON BROADWAY. ADELAIDE, Saturday. • "The depression in America is appalling. England and Australia seem to be a paradise compared with that country. ; "On Broadway there ara queues of uhemployed, waiting even until midnight for relief, and most of the large hotels are almost empty. "In Chicago there are 14,000 scho^1 teachers and 24,000 city employees who have received na salary since the middle of November." These are a few of the improssions gained of America by Walter Lindrum, billiards champion, who returned on the Mooltan. Lindrum said that the disb'ess m cities like Buffalo, Detroit and Cliicago was pitiable. "Chicago is bankrupt," is not merely the expressioi: of a newspaper, he said. "Chicago was bankrupt, and knew not where to turn to meet its liabilities. Between 4000 and 5000 banks had failed since the stock market crashed. "There are blocks of buildings 3 0 storeys high, with speakeasies on every floor," he said. "One can ask the policeman on the corner of a street where to get a drink and he will point out a place with the utmost composure."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 259, 24 June 1932, Page 3
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