The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-07
GERMANS BEGIN TO WORRY OVER
 FUTURE TRADE

Copenhagen, Nov. 7.-In the midst
 of the general exultatton in Germany over the victories on the dsonzo and Riga fronts and the demands for re-
 vision of the peace program in ao-
 cordance with tho new war map, Ger
 man business classes are beginning to
 obey the injunction to consider the
 commercial map as we'll.
 An increasing amount of attention
 is devoted by the newspapers to the
 growing difficulties of re-estahdishing
 German foreign trade after the war.
 Articles in serious newspapers, even
 with Pan German views, are found al-
 most every day in which it is pointed
 out that diplomatic breaks with China
 and Central and South American re-
 publics, istead of being @ source of
 amusement on account of the military
 unimportance of these nations, mean
 the loss of Germanys hard-won com mercia1 position in these markets and
 increase the difficulties of the uphill fight to rebuild the foreign trade af- ter the war.
 Business men protest that these diff
 faculties will be virtually 1nsuperable If the government persists in its plan of establishing control of imports and
 shipping after the return of peace
 and of restricting private initiative.
 Some of them go further and demand lindemnif1cation by the State of men engaged in foreign trade for war losses. and State financial assistance in the post-bellun offensive against
 foreign markets. The thought that German shppine might be barred or restricted in the ports of Germans present enemies which has long been scoffed at by shipping and export experts, has now come home to the busipess world as
 a, real menace. Discussions of peace conditions, even in the most virulent Pan German war organs, emphasize the necessity of again procuring for German shipping the most favored nation treatment in foreign harbors
 which was formerly enjoyed. as vi- tai condition of the settlement after the war.
 Considerable attention is devoted to the reform of the British consular service, and the demand is voiced that measures be taken without delay te bring the German consular and trade intelNgence services up to date, and that all preparations be made during the war 50 that the German trades may have a. favorable start in the race to obtain raw materials the 1n- stant peace is concluded.
 The situation is realized with es- pecial kesnness in Hamburg, where tn repeated articles by business experts the government has been warned that the plans to promote the recovery ef German exchange and keep down prices by establishing an official pur- chasing monopoly would merely result in rival nations getting the scanty ! wer1d-supp1y of feedstuffs and raw materials,
 There is 8. wei1-autheHtdeated story of a conference between Emperor William, Field Marshal ven~ Hinden- burg, General ven LudendeFH and AL
 bert Ballin, head of the Hamburg
 American Line, last suHHnaeF, in l which the Hamburg shipping mag | nate, after listening to the glowing account of tfae military situation given l by the military leaders. told the Enl- perer that every extra meath of ~the | war meant an additional year in get ting cut of the slough of ruin after the war. He declared he did net sx- peet te live to see Germany cut of her difficulties,