THE NAVY’S STRANGLE-HOLD

Taihape Daily Times, 6 November 1918, Page 3

THE NAVY’S STRANGLE-HOLD

How tic relentless grip of tic British Havy is stifling, Germany industrially is proved afresh by the impending collapse of tie Hun cigar-making trade. It is now officially announced that as tobacco supplies will be completely exhausted by the end of the year all of Germany’s 6000 eigar-manufaetur-ing establishments will be obliged to close down. Formerly 220,000 persons were employed in the trade, but restrictions of output and combingout for the Army have left only about 90,000 at work. These will bo all idle by Christmas. The "Berliner Tagoblatt" estimates that SO per cent, of the capital invested in the German tobacco industry is tied up in cigar manufacture, the turnover amounting to £50,000,000 a year. Stoppage of tobacco imports from the Dutch Colonies is responsible for the Huns’ cigar crisis.