COUNTING THEIR CHICKENS
G'ERMANi NEWSPAPER'S COMMERCIAL DREAM. : Brirelegrajli—Press Aasoclatlon-OocyrUrlil London] December 15. Ihe Hamburger Fremdenblatt" urges an "Orient express," instead of a "Berlin-Constantinople, to start from Hamburg, and make that city the world's greatest commercial city. New canals and railways ought to be built along tho Elbe, the Weser, and the Rhine, to facilitate the German trado from "ortli to south, resulting from opening the gate to Bulgaria and Constantinople. London must abandon her claim to be the ruling, centre of tho woild's trade. [The "Orient express" route before the war ran from Calais through Paris and Strasaburg, and' then, crossing Southern Germany, passed through Vienna and Budapest to Constantinople. The cablegram implies an attempt to divert the traffic of this important route out of, France.]
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2646, 17 December 1915, Page 7
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126COUNTING THEIR CHICKENS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2646, 17 December 1915, Page 7
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