GERMANY’S TRADE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1874, 7 September 1918, Page 4

GERMANY’S TRADE.

FAINT HOPES OF RECOVERY. The Ha " lie, June l(i. After-war trade is a positive obsession witli the Germans, who are daily dismissing new means of recovering the position they have lost in the business of the world. An article in .the “Weser Zeitung,” “Against England’s Economic War,’’ is the latest revelation of the real terror which Germany’s present prospects produce. The newspaper declares that if anyone reads now what was written in the German newspapers in August and September, 1914, by German politicians of all ways of thinking, he will see with the utmost clearness that the Germans were not only not prepared materially for war with England, but that they were not even intellectually prepared for it. The paper says: —It was then debated whether England could furnish an army adequate in point of numbers, and whether she would risk a big sea battle. In short, we were so intent on the military acpect of the war that even those who strove to bring questions.of international law and of the law of naval warfare into the foreground of interest were few. Never was there a word or even a suspicion of economic war. We did not see that England’s heaviest and sharpest weapon in'the war against her greatest competitors would be that about which the remotest dweller in the interior of Germany talks glibly to-day—namely, black lists, trade barriers, the annulment of patent rights. The newspaper proceeds to say that, while Germany was thinking only of military successes and was justly proud of victory after victory in the Held, England was waging war on a territory afforded by every German business house in ne.utrai Stales —nay, by neutral traders themselves who dealt in German goods or exported goods to Germany, in this territory troops could be marshalled without waiting for compulsory military service. These troops were special troops prepared by long years of most splendid training. On the economic war theatre every English soldier fought on ground of which he had known the most intimate nooks and crannies from his youth up. Here were guarantees for victory which could not be brought to naught by the enemy. “And Englandhas gained this victory. That must daily be drummed into the whole German people till all false ideas are rooted out for ever.” As regards England’s attempt to defeat Germany militarily by depriving her of raw materials, the newspaper says that Ragland has been defeated bn) her economic war has yet another object —namely, the destruction for decades of German trade. This has succeeded, and has so*far approached completness that, there scarcely exists any way to repair in the peace treaty with England the damage done. Germany, says (he Weser Zeitung, must arm herself against this. England’s economic weapon, her brilliant organisation, must be defeated bv a similar weapon. With this object the three Hanseatic Chambers of Commerce have submitted to the Imperial Chancellor a memorial entitled “Proposals for the Reorganisation of Our Foreign Service.” These plans embrace the completing of Germany’s foreign official service in respect of economic representation. Then follow a number of suggestions about the Consular service, the closer connection of trades with the Government, and so forth, the most interesting of which relates to trade commissioners as explained in “the Memorandum by the Board of Trade and the Foreign Office with respect to the future organisation of commercial intelligence.” The newspaper says (hat commissioners resembling’ these British commissioners, adapted to German conditions, should be appointed, with the title of “Economic Plenipotentiaries.”

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