HAMBURG'S WICKEDNESS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12536, 6 May 1915, Page 8

HAMBURG'S WICKEDNESS.

While the rest of Germany has cast from its bosom all things English. Hamburg still has a. cherished vice to which it clings with all the obstinacy of hardened wickeuess. This is nothing less than an inordinate affection for the succulent . but indigestible English: plum-pudding, and to such a pass have things come that the Hamburger Nachrichten, once the organ of Bismarck, •feels it a -duty to administer a sharp rebuke to the erring city. It says: "With feelings of shame we have to state that the preference for everything foreign which existed among the x people, in Hamburg also, at the outbreak of the war. has not been entirely eradicated. One of the largest, stores hero informs us that ladies insist upon buying clothes of French origin or of fabrics ma-dc in .England.

"A famous Hamburg provision store has for years past sold plum puddings and other English delicacies, .which which really made in Germany, but were enclosed in wrappers which bear English inscriptions. ■ This year the proprietor had the labels covered with a slip bearing the words>'Made in Germnay.' At Christmas these puddings had scarcelv any sale because the customers refused to buy them on the ground that thev .were not 'genuineEnglish.' ' ■■ ' ' "A store which recently announced that in future- all English 'sporting articles'■ would bo replaced by goods made in Germany was at once besieged by people, who bought tip the whole of the English-stock for fear they would not be able, to get the ' real English sporting goods' at a later date." _ '-'