HOW GERMANY DID IT.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1916, Page 8

HOW GERMANY DID IT.

THE REASON' OF DEVELOPMENT. Ifnmprou'i as the revelations regardin? the machinations of Germany to build up the business that brought lier into such elose touch with the whole of the world, there are still many things that have to he learned, each Jay bringing with it some further proof of how it wa? done, and incidentullv leaving a medium which if followed would 110 doubt help to make Britain nil even greater nation than slie is. The latest revelation pertains particularly to Australia, but no doubt the same action was followed in other parts of the world, and it shows most clearly that when peace does arrive again, and Germans begin to find their way out liero, it would be as .well if every' effort was put forward to stop similar procedure. The report—it. was nothing more than a rumor—but a well-founded one—makes it clear that one of tile duties of the consuls in all towns was in the event of a huge eontraet which German; might undertake, to use his power to obtain details, and in turn cable them to t':e Fatherland, whereupon the Reichstag's representative would at once interview the manufacturers of the article required and gain news of price and then later on consult with the steamship companies in the matter of transportation, and then offer certain bonus in order that freight rate would not stand in the way of the eontract being obtained.. In due course the tender was receives, and as a result of the Government aid given so widely, and in all directions, was muclt lower than that of competitors who did not have Government subsidy or bonus to help them. That is as regards products from Germany, and with contracts pertaining to cargo from Australia there is little to dispute the authenticity of the rumor either, the same being done in that case as far as the shipping companies were concerned. In the face of this one cannot wonder at Germany's great development., and at the same time admit that the need exists now for every step to be taken that will prevent such a course being pursued when the war is over, and only commercial rivalry rules,