The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-07
MUST IMPORT CANNED MEATS.
Germany Cannot Provide Her China |
Fleet With Domestic Products.

UeTmuHy Cannot Provide Her China
Fleet With Domestic Products,
Hugh Pitcairn. Consul TO Hamburg in a
report to the State Department on scarcity
of canned meats in Germany, says:
1.-The naval authorities at Kiel are COM
PEELED TO buy canned meats (whose import
was to be excluded on account of alleged
impurities dangerous to the health of con-
sumers) at a high price in foreign coun-
tries, because of the inability of Germany
to supply home demands.
IN consequence OF this exclusion. the
provisioning of troops for China has been
greatly interfered with. The 'Intendantur'
(commissary Department. ct KieI has been
trying In vain to buy boiled and corned
beef for supplying the navy, because all
the stock that remained of canned meats
had already been subject to the levy of a
duty. and it will therefore be necessary for
it to turn TO English and other foreign
markets in order to obtain necessary guam
titles
Another evidence of the present anoma-
Ious condition is contained in article in
the .Saro-Amtstidene' OF July 6, 1900, pub
Iished at Slagelse. Denmark. A transla-
ton reads:
As our readers know, German squad
ron is about to be dispatched to China 1t
is interesting TO note that the Slagelse ex
port slaughterhouses Dana have received
an order from the German Government for
sausages to the amount of 10, 000 pounds for
use on the Chinese squadron This order
is to be delivered as soon possible, and
representative of large sausage factory
"A ship with another order of sau-
sages is due - arrive in Hamburg today.
Same is to be inspected by Hamburg or
Berlin exPcrts, as the Dana Company was
Another evidence OF the straits to
which Germany is brought in this connec
ton is shown in the following facts, culled
from IN article in the Hamburg Fremben-
blatt' OF July 10, 1900:
The possibility is widely discussed of
importing the stock of canned meats row
in the various free harbors OF Germany
with the additional consideration of duty
only, for the supply of the navy, before
the 'Fleischbesehaugesetz receives the
imperial sanction.
The proportionately higher prices
should not come into consideration where
the urgent delivery and the purity Of the
material are the principal factors; how
ever, on the other hand. 1t is of the ut
most Importance to begin to think seri-
ously of erecting our own plants for such
goods. In order TO make the supply of our
Navy as independent as possible of foreign
manufacture.
This seems almost an imperative ne
cessity.
The army authorities own two large
meat-preserving plants-one at Spandau
and one at Mainz. We do not know wheth-
er the navy ever received provisions from
these factories; however, at the time of
the occupation of Kia0-chiou, considerable
comment was made upon the fact that
American canned meats We're largely used
in supplying the German Navy. It is
known that canned and preserved meats
are indispensable in supplying the army
and the navy, and it Is no less plain that
our plants in Spandau and Mainz are far
from able 10 furnish the requirements
There is an urgent necessity for crea ting
new plants and extending the old ones 10
such degree that the. provisioning Of the
army and navy can be accomplished by the
home industry alone.
The first condition for the establish
ment of adequate plants is a great market
which offers constant facilities for buying
the raw product throughout the year. The
second condition would be the proximity
of large city, in order 10 facilitate the
sale OF products left over from the slaugh-
tered animals, which are not necessary to
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which can nevertheless be utilized The
factories al Spandau and at Mainz are at
present in operation only during the win
ter months New plants supplying an out
put Of considerable size throughout the
whole year would have TO be operated on
a more economical scale and be allowed 70
use minor grades of raw material in order
TO compete with the foreign market.
/" Besides this field, the rapid extension
of our merchant marine and passenger
traffic demands the building up OF this in
dustry- Above all, We must save our navy
from temporary embarrassment.