New Britain herald., 1917-11-07
GERMANS WORRIED
 OVER THE FUTURE
They Will Have an Uphill Fight
 in Business After War

Copenhagen, Nov. 7.-1n the midst of the general exultation in Germany over the victories on the Isonzo and Riga fronts and the demands for re-
 vision of the peace program in ac- cordance with the 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-establishing German foreign trade after the war. Articles in serious newspapers, even the Pan German views, are found d. most every day in which it is pointed out that diplomatic breaks with China and Central and South American re- publics, instead of being a source of amusement on account of the military unimportance of these nations, mean the loss of Germany's hard-won com mercial opposition in these marts and increase the difficulties of the uphill fight to rebuild the foreign trade af- ter the war.
 Business men protest that these difficulties will be virtually insuper- able If the Government persists in it's plan Of establishing control of i'm ports and shipping after the return or peace and of restricting private in- lt1ative. Some of them go further and demand indemniflcation by the State of men engaged in foreign trade for war losses, and State financial as- sistarce in the post-bellum offensive against foreign markets
 The thought that German shipping might be barred or restricted in the ports of Gernlany's present enemies, which has long been scoffe,l at by shipping and export experts, has now come home to the business world as a real menace. Discussions of peace condition, even in the most virulent Pan German war organs, emphasize the necessity of again procuring for German shipping the most favored nation treatment tn foreign harbors which was formerly enjoyed as a vi- tai condition of the settlement after the war
 the reform of the British consular service. and the demand is voiced that measures be taken without delay to bring the German consular and trade intelligence services up to date and that all preparations be made during the war so that the German trades may have favorable start in the race to, obtain raw materials the instant peaEe is concluded.
 The situation is realized with espe- cial keenness in Hamburg, where in repeated articles by business experts the Government has been warned that the plans to promote the recov- cry of German exchange and keep down prices by establishing an official purchasing monopoly would merely result in rival nations getting the scanty world-supply of foodstuffs and raw materials.
 There is a well-authenticated story of a conference between Emperor William, Field Marshal von Hidden burg, General von Ludendorn and AL bert Ballin, head of tine Hamburg American Line, last Summer in which the Hamburg shipping magnate. af- ter listening to the glowing account of the military situation given by the military leaders, told the Emperor that every extra month of tEe war meant an additional year in getting out of the slough of ruin after the war. He dcclare7 he did not expect to live to see Germany out of her diffi- culties.