The following official telegram from the Foreign Office has been handed to Reuter's agent in Po king:— paper " Vorwaerts" of October 23, the German Metal Workers' Union paid out over £150,000 for the bene fit of unemployed members of the Union during the first nine weeks of the war although, up to October 8, over 152,000 of its members were serving with the colours. The same paper reports, on October 29, that the percentage of unemployed members of the Textile Workers' Union was 15 per cent. in September, hence over 200,000 members of the Union were unemployed.—Reuter.
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