MANUFACTURERS ALERT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2266, 28 September 1914, Page 7

MANUFACTURERS ALERT

TO SUPPLY GERMANY'S CUS- - TOMERS, . ' London, August 14. That British manufacturers are' very alive-to the great opportunities which' the dislocation of the German export "trade offers them'is shown by the'great, number o.f inquiries which'they are. already making at the .various departments of the Board of Trade. . "Not only in this department, but also in-others, are we being inundated witli inquiries every minute," said ah official to a "Daily News" caller. "This' goes to show that our people are conn-, dent that the trade routes will be kept open, and that wo shall capture an enori mous. portion of the German export trade." A typical instance is provided by the electrical industry. Last year.Germany did an export trade of £14,500,000 in electrical equipment alone. ; British South Africa, as a case in , pint, took about 2000 tons of general plant in addition to nearly 30 tons of metal filament lamps, and tons of other things, from Germany during tho year. In-hard cash figures the'above cannot bo given now, but the.point is that, what, over South Africa or any other colony wants to bo supplied in electrical equipment will not now come from Germany. "In other words," said the offioial, "Germany will lose' millions on her exports in this line alone, and what hap-' pons in this direction must also happen in other industries as well, to the,advantage of Great Britain, oven though the war is. in progress." A representative of one of -tho great colonies endorsed tin's view of tho trade situation.—'.'Daily News." . . '.'