TRADE AFTER THE WAR

Nelson Evening Mail, 31 July 1916, Page 7

TRADE AFTER THE WAR

In eoncnct'ion with the question of trade after the war, it is interesting to note the -view which Germans take of foreign trade. Theirs was a policy of exclusion so far as their own country was concerned. A Brussels newspaper in 1914 'published the "Ten Commercial Commandments," drawn up for - the Fatherland's faithful sons and daughters : 1. In all yauir expenditure, however small, never lose sight of the interest of your fellow-Germans and your fatherland. , 2. Never forget that, when: you purchase; a (Foreign-nil de article, even though it costs only a pfennig, you d. minish the fortune of your country by your act. 3. Your money should only p>roht German merchants and Gel'maii workmen. 4. Never .profane German land, German houses, German' workshops, by the presence and .use of utensils or iinaciiinery made by foreigners. 5. Do not eat imported foodstuffs, which do it wrong' to German agriculture as well as injure your health, and are, besides, free from the sanitary inspection of German officers. _ 6. Write on German paiper with a German pen', and dry your German ink with German blotting paper. _ .... 7. A German jacket gives distinction to a German's back, and; a Germanmade hat 'is the only covering for a ■German's head. 8. German flour and German fruit, Genmian wines and German 'bee,r can alone produce the Geinian's power. 9. Whether you drink coffee: or chocolate, always see that it is the product of Germany or her colonies. 10. When you are beset with foreign 'importation, he convinced' that the only ■products worthy to foe> consumed' by Germany's sons aire the results of Germany's trade and Germany's commerce.