Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-12
HOLLAND SEEKS NEW INDUSTRIES TO MEET
 INDEPENDENCE WISH
Netherlands Figures on New In- dustrieS to Make the Country Independent, in Times of Stress Such as War.

THE HAGUE. Netherlands. May H. Attention is being given in business circles in Holland to the question fo the possibility of creating new indus tries in this country and by this means rendering the Netherlands more independent of other countries in the event in the future of a similar crisis arising to that brought about by the present European War Numbers of industrial men have taken the subject under consideration. but nothing def mite has yet been proposed The Dutch people in most instances are unaware of the possibilities in the way of investment in their own country and generally place their capital abroad instead of uniting in an effort
 to keep their money at home. where
 with proper organization the returns
 would be just as high as those they receive from foreign investments. ments. while the starting of home in- dustries would be useful in providing
 work for their fellow countrymen, who are sorely hit by a crisis such as that now preyailing
 Owing to Hollands dependence on materials from outside. several of the national industries have for the time being been ruined and those employ ed in them have been thrown out of ! work. For instance the sugar fac ! tories and rehneries. of which there
 are thirty in Holland had been badly affected. in the first place by the pro- l hibition of the export of sugar beet ! from Germany. Austria-Hungary and ! Belgium and in the second place by 1 the refusal of England to permit im- ports of sugar from Holland owing 10 fears that German sugar might | come into the British Isles iE that
 way The Netherlands Government
 also forbade the export of sugar for a | time but later decided to raise the l prohibition and permitted the sugar manufacturers and reiners Co export
 IS per cent in the raw state and 42 per cent redued while retaining the | other 40 per cent of the total in the
 country for home consumption Eng
 land also raised the ban on Dutch
 sugart after receiving assurances that
 no sugar from Germany should be sent
 over the Channel as Dutch. The lack
 of imported beets, however. caused
 many of the factories and rehneries Co I close down or reduce the number of | their employees. who in all total 10,- l OOO This state of affairs in the sugar
 trade also affected other branches di- rectly connected with it such as sack
 and packing ease makers and the | transport workers on the many inc | ternal waterways Of Holland over
 which the beets and the manufactured sugar are carried To met the event uality of such conditions arising again
 in future. it has been decided to culti-
 vate at least double the quantity of sugar beet in Holland and some of
 the men thrown out of work have been
 employed in planting the seed for the next harvest As a rule the Dutch ! sugar factories deliver several hun dred thousand tons of raw sugar yearly From 20 to 20 per cent of 1t ia
 sent in this condition to England the
 remainder being refined in Holland to-
 gether with the large quantities ot
 raw sugar generally imported from
 the other continental countries. Eng land also takes about 25O0OO tons Of
 refined sugar from Holland every T year
 T Another group of trades which has T suffered enormously through the war is that composed of gold and silver smiths and diamond workers lt was f found impossible to procure the neces 2 sary metals for the fabrication Of tho
 innumerable souvenir articles sC |, much sought after by the tourists
 while those countries which are tho best customers for trinkets- Belgium ' France. Germany and the Scandina
 vian nations-showed no desire tC purchase what are generally consid
 cred luXuries, and there has besidel ! ben a lack of tourists since the wa began Some of the factories foun,
 employment for part of their men fl