The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-27
GERMANY As A
TRADE COMPETITOR
Warning Given American Business Men
By Department of Commerce
of After-the- War Methods.

OF AIIer-tne~Wd T MetHOuS,
| Washington, Aug. 26-"Whatever may
be the outcome of the war, Germany il
going to make as active canvass fol
the export trade as its resources anc
financial condition at the end of the wal
Twill allow is the warning given Amer
lean business men to-day by the depart
ment of commerce.
The aims Of Germany to capture the
trail America, Spain and the Near Esst
trail America, Spain and Near East
disclosed in report just made avail
able to American business by the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce, writ
ten by Chauncey ID. Snow, after thor.
ough investigation and study Mr., Snow
was in Germany investigating industrial
conditions when the war broke out
writers in the German press" says
Mi. Snow, at this time acknowledge
that there is bound TO be a prejudice
against German products in the markets
of tile countries now hostile TO Ger
many With an assured commercial hos
tility in such vast markets, it is obsi-
Gus that German export trade must
make the most of the few remaining
neutral markets, In the great neutral
markets of South and Central America =
in which American exporters are none
than ever directly interested-in Spain,
and in other countries not actively in
volyed in hostilities, German competi-
ton after the war viii be particularly
severe. AT the present time German
over sea commerce is reduced to practi-
cally nothing. The German exporters,
however, are endeavoring to keep in
touch with their foreign markets and
are doing everything they can to pre-
serve their good will in those markets.
In the neutral countries of Scandinavia,
The Netherlands, and Switzerland Ger
many has continued to do a considerable
export business. Manufacturers in some
lines, since the outbreak Of the war,
have paid special attention to these
countries and have actually won a larg-
er share of the trade than they had be-
fore, because of the difficulties those
countries have had in obtaining ample,
prompt and regular shipments by wa
ter
German exporters are already plan
ming campaigns for extending their bust
ness in the Near East. Some of the
German writers on foreign trade urge
the sdvisability of making the most of
the German opportunities in that region,
and are pointing out that if sufficient
energy were bestowed on the develop |
ment of AIesopotamia it would become i
a second Egypt. They are pointing out
that the thing for Germany to do is to /
establish itself so firmly in the countries |
TO the east that in any future contin-
yency Germany would have overland
with big and hourishing
markets and sources of supply for raw
all the way east TO the Persian
gulf and the Red sea. The German Lee
rant banks are already there. Germany 4
ias already taken a hand in the con-
itruction of railways in the near east,
md if the Germans can further irriga
ion and the growth of industries in that
eetion, Germany's future in world trade
will be more secure. The near east is
one of the great fields where
iermsn competition will be keenest.
among the preparations for the pc
iod following the war the international
movement between Germany and. Aus
ria Hungary are most interesting. In
he common cause of war the two en-
Tres have been brought very close to-
ether, and It is felt generally that fol-
owing the war they viii remain in the
losest of economic-possibly, also; po-
tical-relations Bulgaria and Turkey.
kewise, have been brought closer to the
reat central powers by the war, and
IS clearly formulated efforts are be-
~ made to align them with Germany
nd Austria Hungary when the war
tops"
In looking TO the future, the United
tates has many Of the same problems
5 Germany and the other warning ma
ons. Like the German exporters, the
merican exporters have 70 face a pc
cd Of sharp business competition in for
go countries such a., probably, has
EVER before been met In Germany the
dividual business man. all the local and
-eat national associations Of business
en, and the government departments
Re now strenuously occupied with the
-oblems that must b. worked out The
meriosn business mems associations
"a the government departments are