some RM 120,000,000, a figure which includes the
money spent on fares, that, paid to innkeepers for
lodging and extras, and the miscellaneous, but in
the aggregate enormous, sums spent on travel equipment, such as suitcases, hiking boots, skis, photographic apparatus, postcards, souvenirs, and so
forth.
 
 By a special agreement concluded in the fall
of 1937 with the Italian recreational organization,
Dopolavoro, Strength through Joy has arranged for
an exchange of German-Italian vacationers. These
workers, who are conveyed over the Alps in special.
trains containing about 400 passengers, usually only
make a stay of two or three days in either country.
It is learned that up to the present some 30,000
German and Italian workers on each side have taken
part in these excursions.
 
 Strength through Joy plans to expand its sea
itinerary this winter to include Greece and Yugoslav ports on the Dalmatian Coast. It is noted that
the British Empire press has attached considerable
political interest to a rumor that a Strength through
Joy excursion would be sent to the former German
South African colonies, questioned as to this report, 
officials of the organization stated that
while some such proposal has been entertained, it
has not yet reached the stage of a definite project.