GERMANY'S TRADE WAR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 247, 6 July 1918, Page 7

GERMANY'S TRADE WAR

, MEASURES TO FORESTALL IT ALTERNATIVE TO ECONOMIC BOYCOTT London, July 1. The International Parliamentary Commercial Conference adopted a resolution in favour of ;t system of common copyright, patent and trade-mark righls iur all Allied countries. .Another 'csolution demanded that hours of labour and industrial conditions should he regulated so as to conduce to the hcailh of employees. ■ The Commercial Committee of the British Parliament submitted a report, foreshadowing the roncwal of the outbreak of commercial hostilities by the Germans directly after the war, and stating that, unless vigorous economic measures are now concerted, the Allies will again suffer. The devilish ~nd dishonest practices of Kultur warfare had their counterpart in Kultur trade. German schools of commerce inculcated the principle that any rascality was permissible if.it advanced the interests of the Fatherland. When peace was signed, a .general commercial and economic boycott must turn out to be impracticable' or inadvisable, in any case, in (ho general inlerests of humanity, it could not be enforced lieyond a very limited number of years. The alternative, was restriction and regulation, which meant that each Allied country should have preferential I Hiding, and a differential tariff. Mittel Kmopa would retaliate, but the Allies, joined in a. preferential league, must prepare to face the utmost that llittel L'iuropa could do. The Allies should, first, provide for their own requirements nf essentia!, raw materials and key industries; second, provide there also for neutral nations; third, if any surplus existed, the cnomy nations might l>e considered, but, of course, at higher prices. ilr. 11. Steel llaitland said they all hoped I hat when some years had passed after the war, it might be possible, for Germany In come back to the society of nations; but they must takiMsleps to meet the plans that Germany was mak-ing.—Aiis.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (The cable news In this Issue accredited to tho London "Times" has appeared in that journal, where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinion 1 of the "Times."} .. *