The Eve of French Invasion.

The article presents information on various socio-economic developments. This has not been a happy Christmas in Germany. It has been overshadowed by anxieties of all sorts, both material and moral. Never have the shops done so little business at Christmas time. Buyers were frightened away by the rising prices, which were 85 per cent higher in the first half of December than they had been a month earlier, and four times as high as in the first half of October. Salaries and wages have not risen proportionally, and of course the incomes of large numbers of Germans have not risen at all. As paper prices rise, the plight of persons with fixed incomes grows more and more desperate.