GERMANY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 20 February 1920, Page 5

GERMANY

(By Electric Tefc^aph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association) . BERLIN, Feb. 17. Twenty-two large meetings protested against ’ the separation of German territory by the Peace Treaty..

The Hamburger Fremdenblatt states that Germany retains only 3 per cent, of her pre-war mercantile fleet. She does .not possess a ship capable of crossing the Atlantic, or even of bringing Swedish ore. A treaty uniting Coburg and Bavaria was signed at Munich. German exports to Great Britain in 1919 were valued at about £1,000,000, and imports at £14,750,000. (Bee. FCb. 20, 12.20 p.!m) BBBLItf, Feb. I?. v Germans, believing that Britain. is arranging to trade with Bussia through Litvinoff, say: “If any business is possible, then we are going to be in it.” A Soviet agent now in Berlin, supposedly concerned in negotiations for the exchange of war prisoners, is believed actually to be arranging for the resump, tion of trade relations. Large numbers of German war prisoners are remaining in Bussia. They are associated with th e Bolsheviks and are likely to prove valuable pro-! moters of trade.