POST-WAR TRADE.
GERMANY FORESEES RUIN
BERNE, February 17. ' Vorwarts,' commenting on the announcement that Lord Balfour of Burleigh's Commission is proposing a system of preference tariffs throughout "the B'ritish Empire, says this docs not moan Freetrade, but means Protection in a form that will accompany the Empire to the grave. It means that Canada, Australia, South Africa, snd New Zealand, which have been melted in the naming fire of a world war into closer unity with the Mother Country, will exchange their loose political connection for an absolute union. The only consolation is that thousands of obstacles are being piled in the path which the Empire builders, Mr Lloyd George and Mr Balfour, hope to follow". Preferential duties to the British Dominions will hit Germany's export trade, as they are intended to do. Vorwarts ' concludes : "The British world-empire was our best customer.''
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Evening Star, Issue 16352, 19 February 1917, Page 3
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