GERMANY.
SUFFERING FROM FOREIGN GOODS. Received Oct. 7, 8.40 p.m. London, Oct. 6. The Daily Chronicle's Berlin correspondent interviewed a prominent businessman, who said that Germany was suffering sorely from the importation of foreign goods through the occupied territories. Germany is in desperate need oi cotton and woollen yarns, hides, cotton goods, tin plates, also credit so that the mark can be stabilised and raised, but cheap jewellery is coming through the hole in the west. If Germany were I allowed to erect a customs frontier she would prohibit importß except vital necessities. . Instead, she finds herself flooded with cigarettes, chocolates, cognac, and other luxuries which the Germans are quite willing to buy, but which the country cannot afford. This trade results in a great quantify of marks going abroad.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1919, Page 5
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