GERMAN TRADE METHODS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 9

GERMAN TRADE METHODS

FIGrtT BY BRITISH INDUSTRY

EUROPEAN MARKETS

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)'

(Received December 3, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, December 2,

Mr. R. S. Hudson, secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade, in an interview with the "Daily Telegraph," said that British industry would be organised if necessary to fight German trade methods not only in south-eastern Europe but in. the markets of the world.

The Government had no intention of copying Germany's methods. On the contrary, Britain would continue to conduct her trade and commercial relations along orthodox and traditional financial lines, but new methods would be introduced as new situations arose. The exact form of these methods was being considered by the Government.

He emphasised that Britain did not want a trade war with Germany, but, if no other way was left, Britain, would not shirk such a war. The Government desired a trade agreement with Germany in which other nations could join, but till such an agreement was reached and as long as Germany maintained . her present trading methods whereby she had secured a stranglehold over various countries at the cost of her own people "we shall be forced to step down into the arena to meet her at her own game. Her methods are destroying trade and unsettling conditions throughout tha world, and they must be countered.™