GERMANY'S DUMPING CAMPAIGN

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 199, 11 August 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

GERMANY'S DUMPING CAMPAIGN

London papers just to hand report that according to travellers from neutral countries who have recently returned from visiting Germany, the world is 1.0 bo afforded another striking illustration of Prussian efficiency immediately the war is over. We are to be shown that all the while this war has been :n progress Germany has been piling up manufactured goods against the dav when her ships woull once more be free to sal! the sea, and that she wiil be able to strike just as strong a blow for the recovery of her export trade ,i; she was at the beginning of the wir Hus'i I exH of Bets I ' l ■lie H>rt HxI l ' Hte H>n ■rt Hit In I" B ?r Hd Hi" lr:i mi ■:, H"n Hgh> ■ i I 'o Hjoii Hmo B a c ~ Hike Mvr_ Hn a MsoiH>nt, Hhat I of. H'lti: l*iB : vB>ic B-, Ki:'Bud. ladBat. Hods H a * I !PB' j;> ' BrtI ;>•') Bo!, ByB , b- v ~ I". B !s 11; e Hat Bis I '' Bt!t Bv^S BfiHon Ids, Hill Ht es ■fer IH Babsorb her plishing for her the double purpose of enabling her to replenish her stocks of needed raw materit.l and at the same time demoralising the trade of h,er competitors. It will even pay her to offer all her dumping store at 10 per cent, below factory cost, if she can thereby unload it in the first six months of so-called pe-cc, to* after all the war is being largely fought by Germany for wor'd trade, and what : s 10 per cent, on 1,500,000,000 dol., compared to t!io cost of the war itself? If all this is true, or even if ;t lie only partially trua, it affords ;u: additional an i a very powerful reason why the Allies should lose no time in organising their scheme of reciprocal ; -eferontlal trade on ij'.nes as effectively defensive as it is possible to make them.