BARGAIN DAYS.
STRANGE TRICK OF ; ;<■ SHOPPERS INVADE GERMANY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Nov. 1, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 31. The Daily Chronicle’s special Berlin correspondent states the sudden arop in the mark made Germany a vast bargain country. Invading hordes are crossing the frontiers in search of bargains, and they cleared the frontier towns like locusts, and also farms, with the. result that many -stores here and in other cities are empty and shut. The invaders arrive at frontier towns m trains, motor-cars and carriages pushing prams, and depart with portmanteaux* full <jf spoil, buying everything purchaseable, from rings and furs to a .couple of cheap meals. Americans prefer furs and evening dresses, and Englishmen cameras and field glasses, while Belgians, Spaniards, French, Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians clear out drapiers, china shops and furnishers. -Representatives of half the nations of the world are busy buying up Germany, leaving residents to pay the piper in the shape of rapidly increasing prices.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1921, Page 5
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161BARGAIN DAYS. Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1921, Page 5
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