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Show GERMAN Wl MARKET LAGS American Prohibition Held Largely Responsible RRRMV. Ort. Tha world ont- gld la drinking; only ntout hlf tha 0rmgn baer. 1 ronaumcrl noforej tha war. and for thll condition Amerlr:n prohthitlnn la held to t largely re-gponalhla. re-gponalhla. lMirlng tha first hulf of th prrgnt yaar only 27.O0 hrrthtrg wtr fortad, making; an eatlmated export of &".O0d hetolltcra fur 1922. mm com. pared with l.l?t.04t gntiually In prewar pre-war daya. Tha latter amount waa valued val-ued at 2ft.O0,onft ajolrl marks, while mlfta of beer ant nhroni during; thla egra flrat aemeater la fuied t nearly tOt.000."'o paper mark!. I Tha principal prewar rnatomerg for ' Germany's hrewa, which made the word 1 "ateln" ronirnonplat-a tn hara virtu- i ally the world over, were ItelKtum. ' Hwltrerland. Kranre, tho I'ntted Slaei ' (treat H rl tain, and A-ustro-HunKnry. i Wir pamlyxed tiermany'a beer exi-ort ' almost completelv. With the return of peaa the Inrluatry'n illfflrttltleg were j not so much the recovery of loat m:r- j keM. na the fifuring of ray mterUla.J rtrfTuTiirTrnrIev . Kvn Moday lh ahortaga of hurley for domeatu mn- sumption Is such that tho brawerleal are not permitted to ua the home- j grown product for export beer. ,In se- ; curing the aupply abrond they hnv i turned mainly to rotintrleg whera the rnrrencv was relatively weak. but I barley grarctty ther hun forced them j to buv a food deal of America and ' Denmark. Todriy tha leading drinkers of Cer- J man beer are the realdeuts of tha Hrl- . t:sh and rtltrh Indian and the Inhabt-' tunts of the Near K.st. Of at there1 baa been nn Increasing demand from 1 China, F.gvpt has proved a r"d ea- , tomer becauae of the ban maintained j on Ilrltlah products. Other buyers Include In-clude Went and South A flea, tha Congo, and Morocco. Itecently there have been several consignments to Paris. |