A DEATH-BLOW TO GERMAN TRADERS
(Rcc. February 18, 5.5 p.m.) Berne, February 17. The German Socialist newspaper "Vorwaerts," commenting onvthe announcement that Lord Balfour's PostWar Trade Commission is 'proposing a Bystem of preferential tariffs for the British Empire, says: "This does not mean that free trade is dead, but it means that a procession is being formed which will accompany it to the grave. It means that Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand, which have been melted by tho flaming fire of the world war into closer unity with their Mother Country, will exchange for a, loos© political connection an absolute union. Our only consolation is the thousands of obstacles - that are being piled in the path which the builders, Lloyd George and Balfour, hope to follow. Preferential duties in the British Dominions will hit Germany's export trade as it is intended to dp." Tlio "Vorwaerts" concludes: "The British world Empire was our best customer."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assu.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3007, 19 February 1917, Page 5
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