TRADE AFTER THE WAR

Nelson Evening Mail, 19 February 1917, Page 5

TRADE AFTER THE WAR

j THE EMPIRE POLICY. I GERMAN COMMENT. .

'Australian and NvZ CaW* AiwoHat-inn :vBERNE,-Feb.',l7, : The Vorwaerts, oommeiitjhg on thb annoxmceiuent that Lord Balfour's Commission is proposing a system <if preferential tariffs rn the British Empire, says this does not mean free, trade, tout it (means that a procession isi farming -which rwill acoompany.it to the grave. It means that Canada, Australia,.- South Africa, and New Zealand,' -which have ."been melted, in the flaming' fire of the world war, are coming into closer /unity with the Mother Country, and will exchange tlte 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, like Mr IJoyd -George and Mr Balfour, hope to follow. Preferential duties in H;he British Dominions will hit Germany's export trade as they are intended to do. The "Vorwaerts concludes: "The" British world empire was our Best customer."