GERMANY'S LOST TRADE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1919, Page 9

GERMANY'S LOST TRADE.

HOPES OF RESUMPTION. "BAGS READY FOR ENGLAND." . "They have their bags packed ready for England, and as Boon as peace is signed they expect to 'go back there in shoals." An Englishman who passed through Cologne after spending some weeks in Berlin made this declaration to me, says Mr. Pereival Phillips, concerning the intentions of German business men, who are now waiting impatiently for the conclusion of the Paris Conference. "They want peace badly," lie continued. The placid conviction that peace will reopen the gate to Great Britain is held by hundreds of apparently sane Germans, and they refuse to be disillusioned. There is intense jealousy of the occupied Rhineland because of the better position of its inhabitants; they are getting food, boots and cloth, and the markets are gradually opening, and in the meantime the manufacturers and traders and the rest of Germany look on hungrily and cry for peaee. The German Government troops are Bteadily improving in character. Youths are being discharged, and their places taken by older and better-trained men. For the moment the Spartacists are powerless. Krupps have issued an appeal to their employees at Essen to avoid strikes and to settle down to work in order to prevent business from going to foreign countries. The director points out that after the plant had ceased to make munitions a certain number of orders were received from abroad. Owing to the conbecoming more and more disinclined to stant strikes, however, neutral firms are 'give contracts to Krupps, and are favoring British and American firms instead. The workers are reminded tfiAt unless the t gloat cas U &sgt> gaityt UMS .Will tttm,