ECONOMIC CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2800, 19 June 1916, Page 5

ECONOMIC CONFERENCE

SOME RESULTS ' t "'' • ' : -'' •' •' aillies displayed a spirit I OP LOYALTY . • ,' ■ ' : By TeJjgrapl-Prcss As weiation-Copyriglt (Kec. Juno 18, 5.5 p.m.) . •• •: ••• ' ''Paris, June 17; ,Th£|> "Petit . Journal',''publishes interviews i with delegates'to the '/Economic Confeuence. i ■■ M. I'okowssi, the ~ Russian delegate, states i|:hat the conference was most satis, factory*!, and there was complete unanimity onfall questions. : " i Mr. jfloster, the Canadian, represent*.. tive, sojid ; tliat 'when :, the results were known tit would be seen that the Allies displayed a spirit, of loyalty , and Confidence, and laboured to achieve the common aim to.-> make : impossible coonomit: conquest or' commercial activity .by Hie Central. Powers;--, either in Uuropo <tr in the world. The result will greatly a nd'favourably'influence the oonduct 'of. the war on land 'and'sea,, find, is a guiiran tee-.against; any- : surprise jdefeat ' in the q:onomic or commercial dornrin, which would! othenviso seem to threaten 11.1. . I ' ' ' The "Felit Parisieu". says the Allies' common'policy aims', are. threefold:— . First, io render absolute the .policy already-SormulatSd;:,.of - total prohibition . of trade ; between .the \ subjects :of the Allies ai Hi. tlie enemy.. . . : - .' Second tr, to provide ; for industrial, le- ■ ntcTation ;in the . regions which have suffered; by'fthe war. 1 . Thirdly* to transform radically the fijstem of .commercial treaties, existing . liefcre thn war. ■ ; . ■ . '(.'lie co:ifercncc adopted measures to. avert possible dangers -in the_ period between the-j'ccssation of hostilities and the signing- of; peace. It is.'intended to preserve the i-Mlies' : markets .from, the inva- ' nion 11 of .tUi merchnndise;-which is. lying' in enorme«'s fiuantities: in; ; warehouses in . the Centr.il Empires. . 1 ...