GERMAN STRATEGY. How Herr Krupp Go t a bi q Contract from China.
Nf\v York, July JS.^Tho '• Commercial i Bulletin" says editorially : The fact that Herr Krupp has'contracted to supply China with 1,500 tons of rails at a price, including freight, 25 shilling* below the' Jo west English offer","!* attracting" more attention as a commercial transaction than in our iudirri Go- * yerament just now is reeorting to .every artiJic'e and every expedient to" obtain; a foothold in the Flowery Kingdom",' .with' an eye to future business, £ "In" pursuance of that" policy, Bismarck would hive no objections" to making the Chinamen a' present 'outright' of these 1,500 tone of steel rails, provided he' could somehow get advknt'age of John Biill. The transaction, if it really has taken pl^ce, tuay be contemplated asquite'ii clever piece of diplomatic strategy. ' *f . ."» A Berlin private.cablegrfilni. states that German agents foi theconßtructiiqn ,of tfie proposed ' Chineeef 'railroads have o)b ; taineil the Krupp' contract for ], 500 tori's 6f railrpad ' iroii by pledging themselves" that thyGerrnVn banks would introduce, gold and silver currency, and ihat th<s adoptiion '6'f s tKe"dou^ ktanaara .would precede all 1 the'more elaß'or-' ate tra'n'sactiohs wich (SeVmariyr T V ' " v
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 168, 4 September 1886, Page 2
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196GERMAN STRATEGY. How Herr Krupp Got a big Contract from China. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 168, 4 September 1886, Page 2
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