Preferential Trade.
WHAT GERMANY MAY DO
THE FREE-TRADE CA¥P
RETALIATION V
PREFERENCE
(By Cable.—Press x\ssociation. Copyright.) BERLIN, July 18. TTerr Riehter suggests that Germany should conclude special commercial treaties with each of the colonies which grants Great Britain preference. The German newspapers emphasise the necessity of keeping Great Britain off a quarrel and, continuing favoured nation treatment in order to induce Great Britain to allow Germany to fight the colonies single-handed since the colonies would be unable to adhere to preference it" Great Britain doe-; not make their quarrel hers. LQXDON, July 18. Sir W. V. Harcourt, Mr Asquith, Mr Augustine Birrell and other prominent Liberals are writing fiscal essays, which .the Eighty Club is publishing weekly. A women's free trade union has been formed under the presidency of Airs Herbert Gladstone. (Received 0.18 a.m.) LONDON, July IS). Sir William Hareourt, in commenting on the report of the Tariff Reform , League on shelving preferential trade in favour of retaliatory duties, writes that the former is an ugly topic, but that retaliation is required against the colonies a.s much as against foreign mil ions. If Mr Chamberlain scratches preferential duties and means to win with retaliation, what would the colonial backers, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir Edmund Barton, say?
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 171, 20 July 1903, Page 5
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