UNITED STATES AND GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 968, 8 November 1910, Page 5

UNITED STATES AND GERMANY

AN UNSETTLED .JtfSPJJTE.

By Teleeraph-Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. November 7, 9.35 p.m.) ■

Berlin, -November 7; In connection with the potash dispnto between the United States and Germany, to which reference was made on October 27, tho American delegates in Berlin have submitted a proposal to tho German Potash Syndicate, whereby the loss due to the contingent super-tax would bo halved between the American and German interests, the Americans thus penalising themselves, voluntarily to the-extont of fourteen million dollars.

Hcrr Sydow, tho president of the German Potash Syndicate, rejected Hie proposal, and the American delegates are returning to Washington.

_ Sixty per cent of the potash produced in Germany goes to the United States. The German potash law regulates the production and sale of potash in Germany for the next twenty years. By the erection ot a trading. corporation which will completely control snles.it is sought to prevent the "squandering of salts of potash abroad at unduly low prices." On October 27 it was cabled that Mr. Knox tho American Secretary of State, had intimated to Germany that America is bound to resist the wrong inflicted on Americans by tho retroactive German tax on potash, as American contracts have been mado in good faith with German exporters. The imposition of a surtax on German exports to tho United States was foreshadowed, and it was stated:-"i trade war is thus in prospact which is almost certain to react on the political friendship which has been cultivated between Berlin and Washington rinco 1897."