The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-19
TRADE OPPORTUNITIES IN RUSSIA
Possible for United States to Get Large Part of the
Business Which Germany Has Assiduously Cultivated
for Years
opportunities

Magnificent trade opportunities,
await the United States in Russia. The
possibilities are such that they cannot
be too strongly emphasized, writes
William f. Collins in the Newark, N
j., Evening News.
For years, the Germans have been
assiduously cultivating Russian trade.
They have made great strides toward
winning it. In many center in Rus
STA, German commercial influence has
been decidedly on the gain. Along with
this, there has been marked growth
in German colonization in Russia. This
has been especially the case in LODI,
which was in effect, at the opening of
the war, German trade rival to Mos
j COW.
+! Commercial Russia took the capture
of LODI by the Germans-2the capture,
that is, by the German soldiery--very
philosophically. Tt only followed accom-
mercial capture, and it relieved trade
situation COMMERCIAL Russia rested
in the belief that the war Is end would
see German MERCHANTS and manufae-
turers and their agents, as we'll as
German soldiers, out of LODI. For the
:. present, they were not sorry to see
LODI eliminated from the Russian
trade tournament. N
Since the war began, Germany has
not forgotten Russian trade. More
than that, she has not abandoned 1T
Strange as it may seem, Germany still
is exporting to Russia, While fighting
: the Russian soldiers she continues t.
sell as she can to Russian tradeslnen
Many articles from Germany are sem
to Russia by way of Sweden. They
.. do not bear the German marx, bu
sellers and buyers understand eael
other perfectly One of the euriou
features of the Situation is that med
zeal supplies are being shipped in guam
tity from Germany to Russia.
: Imports from Germany to Russi
iamounted, up to the beginning of tn
war, to about go per cent annually o
the total Russian imports. A secret 0
this importation was the Germa
| genius for working up raw materla
into articles suitable for Russia
. trade. Here, by the way, is valuabl
suggestion for America, which, II
wishes to make money from RussI;
will study to furnish the finished az
ticle and not merely the raw materif
Ri for somebody else to make up into tina
article and sell at q profit.
England Not Popular There.
4 England is doing her level best Z
Il this moment to increase her trade wit
! Russia. But she is meeting with oppt
/ sition England is not popular IN Ru
I sia: the present alliance is forces
/ kThere is little prospect of its contn
4 Euance after the war.
Russia is Jealous of England con
/ mercially as in other waysi fears he
! ana Recognizes that her interests cor
4 mercially,. as web as politically, a
1 diverse from England g. One hea'
] time and again the remarks in Russ
1 tbat. whatever the result of the wa
J England 5 day in world business h;
I begun to decline. The alliance
i Great Britain with Japan, which, d
spite certain present circumstanc
] has come to be regarded as Russia
traditional enemy, would explain T
I Russian attitude toward England,
nothing else did.
There remains America; and to t
United States Russia is looking nc
as never before for trade. Despl
/ German efforts, Germany, even thou'
She might make peace with Russia