BRITISH IMPERIAL PREFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 266, 30 July 1918, Page 5

BRITISH IMPERIAL PREFERENCE

UNEASINESS IN GERMANY

(Rec. July 21), ",25 p.m.)

„ . , Hague, July 2S. intams economic policy is creating viie greatest alarm in Germany. "Vorwacrts' declares that colonial preference is one of the most important facts of tlio war,'and will have a lasting political eflect. Britain's transition .to protection is vital to Germany, and her world empire, which absorbed one-fifth of Germany's exports, will bo extraordinarily strengthened and consolidated. The danger lias arisen that Germany will bo pushed out of tlio wealthy markets. The experiences of the war convincingly and unfortunately have surprised influential circles in Germany, especially the fact that Australia, New Zealand, and other overseas troops have advanced in every battlefield against Iho Germans. Tho consolidation of tho British Empire lias given a smashing refutation of the Gorman annexationists' contentions—"The Times." t TAXATION OF FOOD STUFFS STATEMENT BY MR. LONG. (Rec. July 29, 7.25 p.m.) ■ London, July 2S. ' Mr. Walter Long (President of' the Board of Trade), replying to a correspondent, said that the Governments Imperial preference pronosals certainly would not include the taxation of foodstuffs other than those already subject in taxation—Router.