BUSINESS AS USUAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2655, 29 December 1915, Page 2

BUSINESS AS USUAL

A recent article in the chief commercial organ, "Berlinger Tageblatt,". blandly suggests, that Germany's enemies, when the war is ended, will joyfully resume old-time business relations witli the i Huns. It says:— 1 ; • "Everywhere in business circles the opinion prevails that, despite the Chauvin- I ism now rampant, commercial 1 elation* j between States at present at war with one another will regulate themselves un the natural basis of supply and demand, j It is confidently felt that Gerimm commerce and trade are strojig enough to recapture their old markets, to _ their great capacity and enterprise." ; The nuumginpr iliroclor of the Phopuix Steel and Iron Company,' Germany's largest industrial concern outside of Krupp's, Ktated at an extraordinary general meeting that, while German foreign trade was at a standstill during Hie war, its recon- I iiuest was only a matter of time. Nei-1 tlier Engliind nor the United .States had ! been able to capture any considerable j amount of Germany's business, as her customers "\vcj;e too accustomed to liei!. | =========== j