GERMANY
FABULOUS PRICES FOR FOODSTUFFS. EXTENSIVE SMUGGLING OP COPPER Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, February 21. A neutral correspondent states that captured British artillery are displayed in every important German town to encourage the people, to strengthen the belief in the victorious outcome of" the war, and to divert attention from the enormous losses. Italian wheat is being • sold in Germany at three times the figure obtainable on the Italian side of the frontier. Germany is paving fab'uffnis prices ht foodstuffs, metals, petrol, and rubber. Women have been discovered crossing the Dutch frontier, bringing in petrol in specially-designed receptacles hidden in their petticoats. The investigation of tlv copper eases in Copenhagen disclosed that smuggling had been in operation since October. A syndicate is onerating for a German millionaire in Hamburg.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 23 February 1915, Page 5
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131GERMANY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 23 February 1915, Page 5
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