COMMERCIAL BATTLE.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 July 1918, Page 5

COMMERCIAL BATTLE.

' ABATER WAR IS OVER. LONDON, July 4. Tiie International Parliamentary Conference adopted a resolution in favour of conimon copyright, patent, and trade mark rights in all Allied countries. Another resolution demanded that the hours of labour and industrial conditions should be regulated to conduce to the health of employees. The Commercial Committee of the British Parliament submitted a leport foreshadowing the renewal of the outbreak of commercial hostilities by the Germans directly after the war, stating* that unless vigorous economic measures were now concerned, the Allies would again suffer for the devilish and dishonest practices of “Kultured” warfare, which had their counterpart in “Kultured” trade. German schools of commerce inculcated the principle that any rascality was permissible if it advanced the interests of the Fatherland. When peace was signed a general commercial and economic boycott must turn out to be impracticable or inadvisable. In any case, in the general interests, of humanity, it could not be enforced beyond a very limited number of years. The alternative was restrictive regulation, in which way each Allied country should have preferential trading and differential tariff. Mittel Europa would retaliate, but the Allies who joined the preferential league must prepare to face the utmost Mittel Europa could do. The Allies should firstly provide for their'own requirements in essential raw materials and key industries, secondly for neutrals, thirdly if there were any surplus their enmies might be considered, but, of course, at higher prices. Mr. A. Steel Maitland said that all hoped that when some years had passed after the war it might be possible for Germany to come Back to the society of nations, but wo must take steps to meet the plans Germany was making.