Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-07
FRENCH DETERMINED
TO BOYCOTT GERMANY

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
PARIS. April 2S.-The proposed boy
colt after the war. of German products
in France and other countries of the en-
tente might. until recently, have been
looked upon as the manifestation OF
spirit that reasonable peace treaty could
overcome. The idea is now apparently so
deeply rooted in the minds of individuals
as to constitute a menace that may resist
any sort of peace treaty The only off,
cial action regarding trade between citi-
zens of France and the central empires
applies only to the period of hostilities
Private initiative. however. has gone far
in the direction of a permanent ostracisn
of merchandise from countries now AT
war with France If it continues TO de-
velop along the same lines it may make
official action superf1uous
Nearly every French trade corporation
that has felt German competition in the
past is not only spreading the doctrine or
preference for articles made at home or
by the French allies. but is organizing
for the eventual boycott with an ardor
of initiative that was rare in French
business circles prior to 1914.
1t involves the systematic education NJ
consumers to what German articles
and products they bought before the war
without knowing it, and what French.
British. Russian and Italian articles may
replace them. Starting with the charac-
teristic Partisan industry which makes
the minor articles called articles OF
Paris" LEGAL manufacturers were shown
in detail how the Germans lowered the
manufacturing cost and competed with
them even in their home market: this
was done by a public exhibition Of Ger
man-made articles Of Paris" and by eX-
planatory documents spread among the
little manufacturers. There is. perhaps
no other industry that is so important in
Paris; although the articles are of minor
Importance. they are made in immense
quantities by great number of small
gandas with the manufacturers. the move
ment extended to a propaganda with the
families showing them the difference be-
tween the French and the German made
articles
Instrument Situation.
THE scientific and medical committee
Of the allied nations" is being organized
for the purpose of exposing to scientists,
chemists and medical men the reasons
why. before the war Is per cent of the
products and apparatus used by them
came from Germany. and how they may
be replaced hereafter. Most Of the French
of surgical instruments
had become simply commission merchants
German-made articles: for in
stance. all of the medical thermometers
came from Germany. nearly all the fine
graduated glassware used in laboratories.
and eight-tenths of all the microscopes
came from either Germany or Austria
as well as great proportion Of eye
glasses. opera glasses and field glasses
sold by French opticians. The preponder-
ance of German chemical products drugs
and dyes on the French market was we'll
known even before the war but it was
not so we'll known that Germany furnish
ed nearly all of the synthetic remedies
The scientists interested in the or
ganization of this committee have dis
covered In many different obscure corners
Of France men who are manufacturing on
a small scale scientific instruments that
they declare are equal in every way to
those made in GERMANY