HEARTENING UP HAMBURG

Evening Star, Issue 16664, 21 February 1918, Page 6

HEARTENING UP HAMBURG

OVER LOST TRADE. A GOOD TIME COPYING. AMSTERDAM, February 20. (Received February 21, at 10.5 a.m.) The Hamburg newspaper ' Nachrichten' urges preparation for an economic offensive after the war. "German manufacturers during the past three years," it states. '' have accumulated large reserves of finished products, chemicals, dyes, machinery, toys, and scientific appliances, whieh should be Jaunched. on the world's markets

at the moment peace is concluded. This would help to pay for fresh stocks of raw materials. The threats of an economic boycott are only British bluff. " The world is needing German-made goods, .and will turn a deaf ear to attempts to continue' a trade war. Brazil has a million tons of coffee, which only Germany can take; and the Argentine will readily sell Germany her vast surplus stocks of wool. The Central and South American markets are so enormous that German buyers are in no danger of being shut out. Even American cotton, copper, and rubber, and Australian spelter will be at Germany's disposal." Dr Solf still retains his title of Colonial Secretary, and travels frequently to Hamburg, and heartens the people* with orations about the magnificent prospects opening up after the war in Africa, the South Seas, and Australasian waters. He says: "We shall possess our old colonies, rounded off so as to suit the new conditions. Despite London's bragging, the fate of the colonies depends on Hindenburg and Ludendorff, not on English politicians."