Germany.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 49, 1 June 1916, Page 5

Germany.

THE LATEST WAR LOAN. SIX HUNDRED MILLION STERLING. (Received 9 a.m.) Copenhagen, May 31. The Reichstag will next week be asked to authorise a war loan of twelve thousand million marks. THE COMMERCIAL WAR. GERMAN IDEAS OF ECONOMIC ASPECT. (Received 8.5-5 a.m.) Zurich, May 31. Herr Heineken, director of the North German Lloyd Shipping Company, declares that Germany cart complacently await the threatened commercial war. Englishmen, have, apparently, forgotten, that Mr'Chamberlain’s idea of a Greater Britain in an Imperial and economic sense, was frustrated owing to the opposition by the Colonies, which feared the loss of the German market. These conditions are not changed to-day. To boycott Gentian trade after the war would merely drive all the Neurtals into Germany, who would, naturally, offer them specially ' advantageous terms. Germany cannot be eliminated economically without bringing down the whole fabric of the world’s economy, burying foes and Neutrals alike. i PLIGHT OF SHIPPING COMPANIES. ! ONLY THREE DIVIDENDS. (Received 9 a.m.) London, May 31. The Shipping Record states: Of fifteen leading Gorman shipping companies, only three paid dividends in 1915, viz., of six, four, and two per cent respectively, by winding up the accounts, counting interest and receipts in profits, and trenching on the reserves. Seven companies did not publish balance-sheets, including the German East Africa, Nord Deutscher Lloyd, German Levant, and Hamburg-America Companies.