MISLEADING PROPAGANDA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 498, 20 January 1920, Page 2

MISLEADING PROPAGANDA.

There is evidence of misleading propaganda in regard to the ability of the central European countries to resume export trade on a large scale. Paragraphs in British newspapers referring to possible prospective flooding of the market with cheap German goods in such departments as toys and low quality hardware and textiles, which are based on the vaguest calculations rather than on any facts are distorted and circulated abroad so as to suggest that British manufacturers are at a general disadvantage. The truth is that, on the one hand, Germany's power of producing quantities of goods of j acceptable quality is very small at present, while on the other hand very rapid development is taking place in the further extension and special equipment of British factories. There has never been a time in the history of the country when the nation's order book showed such an enormous total, and tthe best judges of the situation are convinced that the prospects of export trade were never more favourable.