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Show GERMAN LAWYERS FEEL WAR'S PINCH Business Tails Away and Tees Are Very Low; Many Families Actually Reduced to Want. Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN, Aug. 19. The situation of the German lawyers, which has been bad for many years, because the profession pro-fession became more and more overcrowded over-crowded during the last two decades, has been made worse by the war. A majority of the attorneys have lived from hand to mouth for ten or fifteen years. Their fees were fixed very low by la and on the average thefr annual an-nual income did not amount to more than $loU0. Under these conditions few of them were able to save anything, ' and the families of thoso who wero called to the front since the outbreak of the war faced want at once. From October 1, 1914, to May 31, 1916, the Central Society of German Lawyers, according to a report just published, pub-lished, spent over $350,000 to keep the wives and children of members from want. The funds of the society are exhausted ex-hausted and it is very difficult to raise moro money, because the business of the attorneys not in the field has been greatly reduced bv the war. To get some relief tho society has petitioned pe-titioned the federal council for an increase in-crease of tho fees wdiich the lawyers are permitted to charge their clients undor the existing regulations. The attorneys remind the government of the fact that they were promised such an increase four yenrs ago, but never obtained it. In 19 1 12 a bill to increase their fees 25 per cent was submitted to the reichstag. but the measure was killed by the committee to which it had been ru-j ru-j erred. |