CAPTURING GERMAN TRADE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 73, 27 March 1915, Page 4

CAPTURING GERMAN TRADE.

it is inevitable that the titanic war in which practically the whole world h engaged must make some striking and far-reaching changes in the ecirmercial and economic conditions of the nations, the Mercantile Gaiotte remarks. If the British are true to thorns-elves, if they are alert and defect mined to profit by the changes, tliev ought to secure substa i'UI htid paimaiient advantages. There ought to he a world-wide increase in British trade, mainly at the expense of Germany. The high sea trade of Germany does not exist to-day, and has not existed for many months. It has taken Germany all hei; time, and by using all kinds of subterfuges to obtain such articles as are necessary to feed her teeming millions and provide the necessaries for carrying on the war, German trade, that is the goods that Germany has been supplying the world, has had to be furnished by other nations, and in this Britain and America have done the most,

because they have boon best nMed for doing so. When the war is over Geimany will be financially exhausted,' she will be short of skilled labour, ui;d she will stand in need of raw matt rials. Furthermore, with the i)-'s of so much of her shipping slia will be in very straitened circumstances, and for a year or two after the close of the war will be unable to do anything in the way of beating up foreign iiacle This long spell should afford the British just tlie opportunities for consolidating any new markets that may be opened up. i