AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1915, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

THE GERMAN WAY IK CHINA. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, Sept. 20. William Vinson Bee, managing director of Yik and Bee, the well-known Chinese firm, recently returned from China. ; He states that Gorman trade in the East is dead, and all the German houses at Hongkong have been forced into liquidation. Before the war Germany was a dangerous competitor for the Chinese trade. Germany's success was largely due to the underhand method* employed. Germans often took up contracts at below cost price in older to oust the British. They also sold British goods cheaper than the British, attempting to convince the Chinese that the British Were making undue profits. They also averred that many British lines were recouped from the State 'Financial Trust, whose main object was to knock put British trade. The trust in turn recouped itself from China by diplomatic blackmail. The sole aim of the Germans in the East was to lower the British in the eyes of China, but the Chinese were not deceived.

MEAT TRADE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, Sept. 20. Mr. Black states tliat he is still agitating for the Federal Government to remove the embargo on. meat export. He has pointed out that there is meat stored in New South Wales intended for the Imperial Government for which New South Wales paid £50,000. The Imperial Government has refused to take delivery and the meat is deteriorating. It could not be sold here except at 2d per lb. loss. The meat works are down and the action of the Federal Gov. ernment is tending to divert the meat export trade to Victoria.