FOREIGN INVESTMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 71, 13 August 1914, Page 6

FOREIGN INVESTMENTS.

i I !iSITK).\ OK HiiiTlMi CRKDJTOJIS. ..•'There Ss an important aspect <:j' his question of linancial preparation for war thai deserves careful consideration - 1 name.y. ihr position and value of our foreign and eelonial invest incut V wrote -Mr. Ktjn-ar Crammond in t he Xiuctc'ii. It Century of hnt November. "The capitalized value of (ileal. tiriuiiiV. investments abroad in approximately £;*,7.">(). of which total about £1 ,550.00 ) COO lias been invented in the Oversea-* Dominions -and elsewln re wUiiis Vw. .Kmpiiv and fI.iNiiyKHMMIU in tVrei.ui countries. It is worths of notice Lint tin- bulk of our foreign investments- his h'-i-n nnde in non-JMiropean countries- - that is to say. in countries which are renn te from any probable area of Kuroj prim dis! urb nice. Have i'.rilish invenI lors in foreign and colonial undeitahj ii:i> attempted to form any conclusion - | to the position in which they won I | b- placed if (Jroat. lirilain'became in i \ \ed in war with a .'Teat naval I'owi r' It ap])c;u>» in be a modern rule of inteilua'ional that property of tin ! ~m-my found wil'sin tin lerrilor\- of a ; belligerent Stai". or debts due to • s ! el - by tile (i\ el'llll It'll tor i»V illdr j vidaabs ai the eonnnencemnii of ho - I ;>!iiie~. are not liable to be seized an ; 'mli-m cd a- prize of wnr . . . Uu ! wh.de. Ib-itisb investors" need not '■«» ! 'illllle:■ am\' inniediiile apprehension i t;. \!ic i-onli-M-aiion ot their property b: