TRADING WITH THE ENEMY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2676, 24 January 1916, Page 6

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY

STEINGENT.'PEOVISIONS JjtToleßrap'iiwFrtßr AsstiMaUon-Oopyrleli , , London, January 21. . In ,tho House of Commons; the Solici-tor-General (Mr. G- Gave), in moving the "second reading of the Trading with the.Enemy Bill, said.that many enemy businesses wore still being oarried on in Great Britain, accumulating profits which would benofit tie enemy in the after-war economic struggle. He quoted an aai example, that, two enemy subjects forming a company could'own ships and have all the advantages British traders and'accumulate profits during iho . war. Tho Board of Trade would, now have power to, terminate and' mud up enemy businesses. The Government did not desire to .confiscate enemy property; but British property had been treated in a-high-handed manner in Germany,and it was dosiraible to hold enemy proporfy in Great Britain until it knew how'tho British Were being treated, and the' comjionsatiou .therefrom if ueces-. sary. ■ v" ;

TRIPARTITE TARIFF UNDER CONSIDERATION (Rec.-January . 23i 5.5 p.m.) ■ London, January 22. - Replying to Mr. ft\ A. S. Hewine, chairman of. the Unionists' Business Committee, Mr. Bonar_ Law,- Secretary of State , for-the Colonies, said' he. had - informed the Dominions regarding' the resolution (cabled on: January 10)j deal-' .. ing with', tariff .on the lines of an economic blow at'the ehemy, and added that the Government, is. earnestly . considering, tho subject.. POST WAR TRADE NEW AVENUES WILL BE OPEN London, January 21. * LorJßosabery, in an address at Edinburgh, said that vast new avenues of : trade would be. opened.to the: Empire after the -war. Austro-German trade would' bo crippled for'many years. Wo would be victorious), but. exhausted and, , paralysed and almqst bleeding to death from such debt and taxation as the 'world had-never seen Our preconceived opinion of the tariff question must be reconsidered,- He hoped that trus6ian Germany would be,utterly.ruined, otherwise nothing willliave been gained; ." but he hoped that the. Christianity and civilisation of Germany. would. not be ■ ' crushed between the impregnable wall of tho. Anglo-French ■ in the west and '• tho torrent of innumerable Russians in tho East. REVIEW OF 1915 OUR FINANCIAL RESOURCES • London, January 21'.. "The Times,"'in its financial ,arid commercial review of 1915, 6ays that with strict economy there need not le any doubt of our financial resources standing any strain. Our commercial operations, despite restrictions, were satisfactory.