GERMAN TRADE AFTER THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 133, 22 February 1918, Page 6

GERMAN TRADE AFTER THE WAR

"ECONOMIC OFFENSIVE" URGED. Amsterdam, February 20. The "Hamburg Nachrichten" urges pieparations for an "economio offensive" after the war. German manufacturers have, in the past three years, accumulated large reserves of finished products, chemicals, dyes, machinery, ' toys, and scientific appliances, which are to bo launched upon the world's markets at the moment when peace is concluded. This will help to pay for the raw materials to be imported. The threats of an economic boycott, says the paper,, aro only a British bluff. The world, needing German-made goods, will turn a deaf ear to attempts to continue the trade war. Brazil has a million tons of coffee which only Germany can take. Argentina will readily sell Germany her vast surplus of wool, and the Central and South American markets are so enormous that German buyers are in no danger of being shut out. Even American cotton, copper, and rubber, and Australian spelter will be at Germany's disposal.

Dr. Solf, who retains the title of Colonial Secretary, travels frequently to Hamburg, and hearten* the people with orations about the magnificent prospects that will open up after the war in Africa, the South Seas, and Australasian waters. "We shall possess tlie old colonics," he says "rounded off to suit the new conditions In spite of London's bragging, the fate of the colonies depends upon Hindenhurg and Ludendorff, and not on English politicians."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.