GERMAN TRADE OVERTURES.
A STRAIGHT ANSWER FROM AUSTRALIA. The following correspondence , has passed between a German firm in New York and a firm iu Australia:— New York, Dec. 24, 1918. Gentlemen,—We take the liberty of sending you herewith enclosed a copy of our wholesale price-list, and call your attention to the fact that the products therein listed, and which weer formerly manufactured by K Schering, Berlin, Fabrik von Heyden, Radebul, and Goedecke and Co., Leipzig, are now manufactured in the U.S.A., either by ourselves or under our direct supervision. Judging from inquiries received from time to time, these preparations have been difficult to obtain in your markets for a considerable period, and theu omy at a premium. The purpose of this communication is therefore to acquaint you with the fact that we are in a position to take care of all requirements for these products, and, with a few exceptions, at the normal pre-war prices. We solicit your inquiries, and will be pleased to quote special export prices for larger quantities than specified in our list. We can also supply clinical literature on any of these products. Hoping to have the pleasure of hear* ing from you, wo are Very truly yours, SCHERING & GLATZ. March 7, 1910. Messrs Schering and Glatz, 150-2, Maid-en-lane, New York, N.J., U.S.A. Sirs, —We have to acknowledge yours of December 24, informing us that firms formerly manufacturing in Berlin, Radebul, and Leipzig are now manufacturing in U.S.A. under your supervision, "that their products with a few exceptions are at normal pre-war prices, that our enquiries are solicited, and you hope for the pleasure of hearing from us," etc. Before your country decided to commit the greatest crime the world has known, and which they launched in August, 1914, our firm had dealt with yours and similar in Germany for nearly 50 years- Your products we admired and largely used, your travellers we welcomed, your countrymen who settled here we made friends of and admitted to our clubs and homes. In your -wicked madness you opened this war hoping that by deceiving your friends, dishonoring your treaties, outraging any small neutral nation that stood in your way, and by committing every crime and bestiality you could think of, to win through by brute force. Your spies were in every land; here they were unmasked and put under control. Your warfare upon the seas has been a policy of murder and barbarism which had it not taken place would never have been believed to have been possible. Women and children and neutral travellers have been murdered whenever the chance presented itself. Your treatment of prisoners of war alone will damn your country for generations. The writer of this is the senior of our firm. His eldest son was a wounded prisoner in your hands, and we know at first hand to what depths of inhuman methods in that direction you can go. The writer's second son, a medical student doing his humane work in Army Medical at Gallipoli, was killed in the field by your associates, the Turks, who were, until you showed yourselveß, the bloodiest murderers of very fit associates. If your country—wanting war—had waged it with some sort of chivalry, as has been usual in the case of civilised nations and savage races, whether the Allies had won or lost, at the conclusion la peace would have been made and a mutual respect or regard born in an honorable feud v.'ould probably have grown into a mutual friendship. You preferred the methods we have briefly alluded to, thereby making your name and reputation loathed and detested. None of us hero want your products, your countrymen, nor your communications.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1919, Page 10
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