VICTORIOUS, BUT EXHAUSTED

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 19, 22 January 1916, Page 5

VICTORIOUS, BUT EXHAUSTED

i ..EMPIRE [".THEJ GREAT .TRADE. AVENUES. fllj XORD- ROSEBERY £ob£s B ..„. ■_■„.. AHEAD. . ...- . JpjfiS : (Received 8.5 a.m.) " *'" -~'' I.J ■•■• -•; .-■ " ■ ~-—T- - ■,-;- ■ '-■'■ Jf . ) - ■■-:'-.■ : LONDON",'January:?^!. Lord-Rosebery, in a- speect 'at burgli, said that vast: new. avenues ,«r trade were opening for the."Empire" af ■■ the war. Austro-Gennan trade • wouEl-"'£.'.,., be crippled for many years. We should tej be victorious, but exhausted,. paralysed, and almost bleeding to death-fromTsueh. debt and taxation as the :worid bad aever seen.- Our preconceived opinion of the tariff must be leconsidered. He hoped that Germany■'■would be utterly ruined, otherwise - nothing'would be:gained, but he hoped that-.Christian--ity and civilisation, of would not be crushed between the impregnaMe. •wall of the Anglo-French armies in tiie west "and the torrent of the"innuniejable _j| Russians; from, the east.: . /^ EQUAL : TO STRAnr I; IF EGONdBTT IS OBSERVED, i . (Received 8.5 ajn.), '-'.'■ • ; ■-=- ■= -'■■ ; LONDON, vTanuary 21. Tlie "Times". Einanciar and "Gommer-'' cial Review ior 1915 says: With strict v economy, tliere need-not, be- any .doubt : that-dur financial resources are capabie I of stanQing ; ahy strain commercial operations . Whielip Sespite restrictions;.are satisfactory. '-:-:.. . :...'.