ENEMY'S COMMERCIAL OCTOPUS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2592, 14 October 1915, Page 6

ENEMY'S COMMERCIAL OCTOPUS

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTS FOR GERMAN USE. By Telcgrauh—Press Association—Copyrleto Sydney, October 13. The Hon. W. M. Hughes, AttorneyGeneral, at a meeting held in connection with the metal exchange, said lie deplored tho extent to which Australian productions got into the enemy's hands. Ho was sorry .to say that it was a fact thatj in spite of the wliole-souled patriotism of Australia, Australian coal was supplied to the German fleet which sank the Good Hope and the Monmouth. AFTER-WAR REPRISALS. London, October 12. The Australian trade section of the London Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution urging the Commonwealth and Dominion Governments to impose new duties and largely increase the existing tariffs against Austrian-Ger-man and Turkish goods, or otherwise to prevent their importation. It recommends members to discourage or refrain from trading with enemies after tho war. The section also endorsed tho resolution to urge the Government to grant a bonus, for not less than twenty years, on spelter produced in works ill Great Britain from ores mined within the Empire, to increase the prico to £23 a ton when the monthly average falls below £23; or as an alternative to guarantee iho capital invested.