Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-02 | Page 25 | Germans Gouging Allied Tourists

GERMANS 'GOUGING' ALLIED TOURISTS COBLENZ, July 1. American and British tourists are flocking to tlv larger cities in the occupied areas of Germany in order to escape the high prices for living now leveled against allied nationals In the interior of Germany. Ger-many. Hundreds of visitors on their way to and from the Paasion Play at Ober-ammergau Ober-ammergau are making their headquarters headquar-ters during their stay In Germany in this city, and reports from Cologne, occupied by the British, and from Maysnce and Wiesbaden, occupied by the French, arc to the same effect. In the occupied arca-s they are protected pro-tected against profiteering by laws which prevent German trades-men from discriminating against allied nationals. Prices in the occupation zones, how-oxer, how-oxer, have taken a jump of about 75 per cent since Un- mark went very low a few weeks ago and Its suin within the past COM days has had no effect whatever on prices. All tour-Isto tour-Isto returning frojjn the Interior are warning their friends not to place themselves at the mercy of the German Ger-man profiteers who are charging visitors vis-itors from 200 to 500 per cent more than German nation il- oo