The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-25
DUTCH PLANNING
 ID EXTEND TRADE
To Better Relations With
 Netherlands Colonies
LACK OF FORESIGHT
Holland Itself Permits Foreigners to Supply Many Articles Which Could Easily Be Made
 at Home

The Hague, Netherlands, April 15-(Cor- resrondence of the Associated Press ) Far-seeing men in the Dutch industrial and commercial world are already mak- ing preparations to benefit from the re- suits of the war from an economical point of view.
 Among the leaders of industry and com merce here the opinion is almost unani- mcus that a redistribution of the avenues of trade is certain to be brought about. These men, of course, take the future position of Holland first into considera- tion. In this connection they look toward the Dutch cAonies. which form em- pire many times larger than the home country itself and whose requirements have been hitherto supplied to great ex- tent by Germany and Great Britain.
 The Dutch East Indies. for instance, have depended almost entirely upon for eigners for their imports. Now, however, i. is intended to make great efforts to push purely Dutch products there, and to create an interest on the part of the colonies themselves In placing on a flrmer footing rela ations with the mother coun- try. With this end in view one step all ready has been taken in granting a small, beginning of self-government to the h. dies, which for the first time in their history this year have issued a big gov ernment loan, the responsibility for which falls upon the colonies themselves.
 Pushing Home Trade
 The Netherlands Union for the Promo ton of National Industries formed, as its name implies, for the purpose of furthering Dutch trade is a part of the movement of Dutch industrial develop ment arising out of present conditions 1t binds it's members, who are manu- lecturers, merchants, storekeepers and private individuals to purchase or sell only Dutch made productions.
 The members argue that much Dutch money now going to America and other countries for the purchase of. articles of ordinary everyday consumption could be kept in the country, while in stead of Dutch investors as now seek ing to place their fortunes or savings in mortgage securities In the United States and Canada they should be in- duced to use them in the development of Dutch trade in the mother country and its colonies. It is contended that the capital of the Royal Netherlands com. pany for the exploitation of oil lands in the Dutch Indies is largely foreign, the Dutch having neglected to avail themselves of the opportunities offered them, while many other industries in the same colonies have fallen from the same cause into the hands of the Brit ish and Germans.
 At home in Hollana even the Rotter- dam Street Car comN Nany is a Belgian concern, while, nokvi ylstanding the fact that the country \<naturally rich-in its hard-working people, in its soil, its ports, it's waterways and it's fuel in the shape of peat--and should be able to supply all it's own necessities, it per mits foreigners to import many articles Of ordinary use which it could pro- duce itself A few Instances of this kind are safes and locks, printing presses, matches, soap electric lamps, pins and needles.
 Lack of Foresight
 Lack of foresight on the art of the Dutch was shown in the question of the