GERMAN SHIPPING CHALLENGE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2168, 5 June 1914, Page 7

GERMAN SHIPPING CHALLENGE

v¥' "SYDNEY PRESS COMMENT ; ; ;^\ KNOCKING DOWN THE TARIFF .;..'-l .;,; '. WALL;—./ ./.^.. OJ:3P«lecrauh—Press Assaciatloa-OonjtijrliJ ■ ■J;:.;;.;;wv (rice, Juno 4, 8.40 p.ni.) " : ■ "■■'' ■■ SydrtGjf, j,,no 4. The general' manager of tho Nord Deutsche-)- Lioyd Company, and tho 'Oonciiii Agonoy for ,ihc Ocrinaii-Aus-tralian Steamship Company,' ham received cnblo iwlvrws from their respective head officers that it has been decided l<j start a regular direct lino from Continental ports ,to New Zealand, begUming in July next, and will maintain alternately four-weekly sailings, fitey are also nrjv'kod that' tho British'' and Herman steamship lines aro conducting Negotiations regarding tlio question of amicable co-operation. "COMMERCIAL VORACITY." (lice. June 4,10.45 p.m.) Sydney, Juno 4. Mr. Owen Phillips, iniej'i'iotfcd on tile. RTibject of tho Anfjlo-C3crman pogotifttions respecting New Zealand trade-, ehircd that tho matter was an iucMoat in world-wi'fc State affairs. Ho coi-n----plainfld. that whereas tho German na» tidn hacks tho German shipping companies,'' the British flipping companies flro not hackai}. Similarly, the- British pufelse had Use, 1-o.Hg Imeii hypnotised by tho Gorman Navy, It was really Germany's commercial voracity that had created her navy. , Mr. Potter, manager af-' tho Shaw, Savilt. and Albion Company, stales that tho British lines trading to New Km*land ftro acting in complete concert, _ Ho l'iopwl that tho dc'ica' o negotiations iionv ill hand wo-iiid soon make a' conforoiic'e irith thei" Germany possible, Iheroby rtntteri.tta a rate war impossible. Tho'"Sydney Moraitig Herald/ 1 in a loading article on tho subject of the expansion of Gorman shipping interests in the Pacific, siays: "But for tlio protcc-. tiv-o terrier, there would b.fl an eitarmmhis inaiirot in Gsf-ifrariy for our meat, wheat, atici wool; It is difficult to, beIwjvo, iit fact of present-clay wird-ilions, that that tariff can fee maistainod miK'h lo.n«er. "It is a sign of the- times that German conservatives, rfiprestfntlui* the lauded classes, are willing to aW-ndon tho' \rrjto mi t-to importation. «f primary prod-iicis ki. tho -tatofftsi of tho_ Australian steamship e-crvkes, This is iih-douM-etHy a quid pro rpio for ill* withdrawal of the subsidy, am? _ sfaiultl ho generous oomfifiHsation, for rf the- Cats* toms' pfohibitioii is oiw?» removed. tbo artn-itws of (Jm-wmu shipping will be ouormously increased." JAPANESE SHIK>D?G COMBINE {Red. Juno 4, 11.43 p.ln.) Londen, Jmia 4. It k understood that three Japanese shropiug cowpasies, tho Nippon-Ytiwn Kixiskai tlio Osaka Shoscu, and the Toyo Yese-h Urns, have agresfl to iimnlgatunt©.