FOOD RIOTS.
OUTBREAK IN GERMANY. Berlin, Sept. 13. Large Communist crowds invaded the Bochum market and overturned and plundered the stalls when owners refused to reduce prices. The police drove the marauders from the markets. The mobs then invaded the shops demanding lower prices. Crowds gathered and speakers attempted to incite them to violence. The police charged and dispersed them. Similar demonstrations occurred in several Ruhr towns, where the shopkeepers mostly shut up their shops.. though some timid ones sold goods below cost. Though the Reichsbank is printing 20 thousand million marks weekly, big employers are still unable to obtain sufficient to pay wages. Krupps have solved the difficulty by obtaining permission to print 400 million marks limited to two months currency, the highI est denomination being 300 marks.
The shortage is causing riots in Upper Silesia where the workers, not being paid, requisitioned food from the shops.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1922, Page 2
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