THE BOYCOTT OF "MADE IN GERMANY"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 22, 20 October 1917, Page 2

THE BOYCOTT OF "MADE IN GERMANY"

Mil. HUGEES EMPHASISES AUSTRALIA'S AIM. Mr. Hughes regards the statement? recently cabled as having been published in the "Weser Zeitung," on tho effects of the war on German trade and industry, as a confession by those who control the German Empire that the economic outlook of the country after the war is desperate. Germany realises she- must lose the and seeks by bombastic and hysterical talk to hide the fact. Unless tiie uiTl-eruiiMv.oriPjpf ih"sc (Icrndful years of destruction, suffering, and barbarous inhumanity which Germany had deliberately inflicted upon the. civilised and peaceful nations of the earth were blotted out, they must toaoh Germany that she must pay the price of her iniquitous conduct. The junkers, who had turned the world into a shambles and !ed tho people of Germany to destruction, would find, if the Allies stood fast by tho terms of the Paris economic conference compact, that tho way of the transgressor was hard indeed, nnd that the means of inflicting punishment wero practicable and effective. The foolish assertion (hat after (ho war "Australia is not going to give up German markets nor those German goods that had onco such a high, reputation, and the same remark* apply to Indi;,"

may, says Mr. Uughe. , -, bo ans-.voroil in a few word.-;. "T cannot speak for India, but I can for Australia, and on;j lliiiiß is certain, whatever other nations or parts of tho liritish Umpire do, Australia has neither the desire nor the intention of resuming her relations with Germany. Australia can get on well without 'Germany's goods of high reputation,' but Germany cannot get on without wool and metals. Australia can sell her raw material, wool, metals, etc., to Great Britain and the Allies, and she will most certainly do so."