The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-24
GERMANY EXPECTS
 ID PROFIT FROM
 CANAL OPENING
Marine Experts Have Prepared
 For Increased Facilities.

by the opening oi the fananaa NdHal' Maritime experts here point out that while the United States naturally will receive. the greatest advantage, owing E to it's lack of ships it will not be in a position to profit by the great in crease in the carrying trade when the German shipoWners have foreseen and prepared for.
 Orders placed by three of the lead ing German com panies for new yes sels designed particularly for service by way of Panama large increases Of capital stock by the. same companies, and the announcement that the four big lines now running to the Orient, Australia mad the, Pacific coasts of North and South America will be di- verted to pass through the canal as soon as it is open to commerce, speak plainly of the importance attributed in this country to the new waterway.
 German authorities say that the ef- feet of the opening of the canal will
 manifest itself chiefly in a great com mercta1 boom in western Canada and the Pacific Coast states, from which sIlip13ina. interests generally will profit; in increased freights as a. result of the opening of hitherto undeveloped or slightly developed states on the western coast of South America stood with raw material; in the diversion and expansion Of the streams of Euro pean emigration to regions on the Pa cidc Coast well suited to settlement but of which the European enigrant hitherto has had slight knowledge; a1fd, finally in the oppor tuHitys offered to the industries of the lUnited States to compete under highly favorable conditions in the ma arkets5 4of the Orient, western South America Aus tralia and New zea1ond.
 Though reluctant to venture def1n- ite prophecies, in view of the, diver gence of expert opinion, Count Ernst. gu Reventlow, the. weu-known Ger; man naval writer and student of American conditions, reviewed the subject recently, as follows:
 There is no doubt but that the United States will derive the greatest benefit from the canal. Further in existing American trade conditions The most important result, from the German standpoint, is that the Ameri-i can East and the American West will be brought much nearer to each oth- CT. The distance between San Fran cisco and New yorlWin be shorten. ed more than 5000 miles.
 t'The west of the United States will experience a strong business and corn-i mercial development The immigra- tion from Europe will probably turn itself far more than before to the Pacific Coast, now that the imrni- x grants are not deterred by the ex- pense of the railroad Journey from New York. That separatione of the East from Nthe West Of the United States existing up to the present in the business field will gradually dis appear, m akin gszztET 5rifsedss teSS a :commereiaI fan d business sszhole.sand in this way palleh stTonger-s San Franf- cisco will lose its present I'm mportance for. the East-Asiatfc trade but in re- turn score a greate gain through it's new position in the trade with the l1 western states of South America. Here, on the west coast of South America, lies the greatest importance of the canal for the United States, and this importance will manifest it. self not only economically but prob ably in the political field as well.
 1.The canal will make the United States a very dangerous competitor of all nations that engage in com merce with the South American and Central American states, for it's posi- ton will become through the canal, even more favorable than it was.g The same is true as to the Far East and Australi- The canal will also prove the strongest competitor of the Amer ican railroads.
 4The canal will bring an interesting political importance to the West In- dies and the Tonga Islands, which are. owned by Great Britain, France and Denmark. In so far as these islands already possess harbors, their import ance will be augmented, either as mar time bases or as ports of call, and their economic positions and their commerce will be greatly increased. Tt is possible, too, that this development may create new political constella- tions and thereby give occasion for in- ternationa1 friction.
 s-One cannot yet say what the plans of the great shipping companies will an l1xy fhnza Ya 11iA 3yU31Tt 4 keep their plans secret as long as possible. A very important factor for the United States, and, indeed, for all America, is, in my. opinion, the i'm migration from China and Japan One cannot doubt that the Panama Canal will divert this immigration to the eastern part of the American con- tinent, whereas it has heretofore been chiefly confined to the west Here, too, the purely economic significance of the canal is complicated with an earnest political factor, and the is-. sue which has heretofore been known only as the Californian question will make itself known in the East Pos sib1y the yellow population of the Ha- waiian Islands will increase still more. rapidly, for these islands will un- doubtedIy enjoy an immense benefit from the Panan1a Canal
 .-So far as Germany is, concerned, the main significance of the canal for our shipping interests lies in the fact that it will make it possible to reach the West in a far shorter period of time. Commerce between the German harbors and San Francisco will in crease as soon as the necessary yes sels are available. German industry will, in all likelihood, gain a new and very fruitful market in the West. In. like manner, importation of the pro ducts of the American West into Ger many vii increase. Trade between. the German harbors and the western harbors of South America, already Of ever growing proportions, cannot fail to be geat1y increased. German East Asian services will probably be run extensions of the lines to the Pa cific coast. In other respects, how ever, the Suez Canal vii continue to 1o he