ANGLO-DUTCH TRADE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 90, 10 January 1919, Page 5

ANGLO-DUTCH TRADE

■■ PROPOSED NEW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. ' In "view'of the ,f act that during the war German commercial and financial agents have been very active in acquiring interests in the Dutch East Indies, which' is now practically the only area in which German enterprise can bo safely conducted on terms of equality with British competitors, a movement has been started for the formation of a. Chamber of. Commerce in London for the Si'omotion of British interests in the lutch colonics. These possessions aro rich in economic resources, inoluding sugar, quinine, Peruvian bark, tobacco, mineral oil, coal/gold, tin, gums, spices, tea, coffee, rubber, copra nnd other products, the development of which has heretofore been largely aided by the expenditure of British capital. The benefits from these enterprises have not always accrued to this country, nor have our merchants received their fair share of tho trade of the Dutch colonies. If Germany should, as anticipated, suffer the loss' of her colonies as the result of the war, it is believed that she will concentrate her efforts in "peaceful ponetration" upon the Dutch colonial possessions. It is suggested that the new chamber shall include representatives of the principal banking, engineering, and commercial interests, and it is also proposed to enlist the support of the'various'Government Departments concerned.

Mr. John St. George Heath, Warden of Tovnbee Hall from 1914 to 1917, died recently. An authority on social questions, he was for some time secretary o7 tho Land Inquiry Committee. During the war he had boon engaged on Labour questions in connection with the Whitby Council's scheme, and, owing to pressure of this work, resigned his position at Toyiihee Hall. Ho was a member of the Society of Friends. Fifty lunatics, including sevoral of the most dangerous type, made their escape from Ballinasloe Asylum, Ireland, during a strike of the attendants for higher wages. ~...-■