GERMANY’S LOST TRADE.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 July 1919, Page 6

GERMANY’S LOST TRADE.

_H'OPES OF RESUMPTION-; “BA-GS READY FOR ENGLAND.” “They have their bags ready for England, and as soon as peace is signed they expect to go back there in shoals.” n An Englishman Who passed through Cologne after spending Isome-Weeks in Berlin made this declaration ;to me, ‘says Mr Percival Phillips, concerning the intentions zcf German business men, who are now waiting impatiently for the -conclusion of the Paris Conference. . _ “They Want peace badly,” he continued. The placid ‘conviction ':that rvece will re-open .th'e gate to Great Britain is__held by~ hunarecls of appar-

ently sane Germans, and they refuse to be disillusioned. _ There is intense jealousy of the:occupied Rhineland, because of the better position of its inhabitants; theyfare getting food, boots, and cloth, and the markets are gradually opening, and in -the meantime the manufacturers_f‘iand traders and the rest of Germany look on hungarily and cry for peace. I The German Government troops are already improving in character. Youths are being discharged‘. and their‘ places taken by older and __b:e-tte"r: trainedmen. For the moment t.be_;Spar tieists are powerless. '” Krupps have issued an appeal to" their employees at Essen to IV avoid" strikes and to settle down to Work in order toiprevent, business from going to foreign countries. The director points out that after the plant had ceased to make munitions, a certain number of orderspwere received from abroad. Owing to the constant strikes, however, neutral fir_ms nrebecoming more and more disinclined to give contracts -to Krupps. zrnd are favouring British and American firms instead. The workers are reminded that unless the plant can be kept going they will starve.