HOW GERMANY DID IT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 February 1916, Page 8

HOW GERMANY DID IT.

THK REASON OF DEVELOPMENT.

Numerous ac the revelations regarding the machinations of Germany to build up the businesses that brought her into such dose touch with the whole of the world, then- are still many things that have to he learned, each day bringing with it some further proof of how it was done, and incidentally leaving a medium which if followed would no doubt help make Ilritain an even greater nation than she '*' ' atpst 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 here, it would be ac well if every effort wa.s put forward to stop similar procedure. The report—it' was nothing more than a rumour—but n well founder] oik —makes it clear tJiat one. of the duties of the consuls in all towns was, in the event of a huge contract which' Germans might undertake, to use his power to obtain details, ami in turn cable them to the Fatherland, whereupon the Reichstag's representatives would at once interview the-manufac-turers 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 ratea would not stand in the way of the contract being obtained. In due course the tender was received, and as a result of the Government aid given so widely, and ill all directions, was much lower than that of competitors who did not have Government subsidy or bonus to holp them. That i.s as regards products from Germany, and with contracts pertaining to cargo from Australia there is little to dispute the authenticity of the rumour either, the same being done in that case as far as the shipping companies, wrro cenccrned. In the face of thi* one cannot wonder at Germany's gTeat 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.