Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-06
HUNS MUST IMPORT
GOODS AFTER WAR
Peace Will Bring Large Demand
Upon All Spheres of
Production.
NEED is FOR FOoDSTUFFS
Greater Part Of Oversee Trade
Was Formerly Done
With England.
NEED is FOR FooDsTUFFs

BERLIN, December 20.-when peace
is concluded, the using up of even the
| last reserves Of our materials Will lead
to a very large demand in all spheres
o: production.
The storehouse. completely denuded
OF materials and other supplies.
will be in urgent need of restocking.
We shall need to import from overseas
! cotton. wool. jute. copper. rubber and
leather. and also foodstuffs and fodder
With regard 10 these last. one some
times hears it said that, for the sake
OF our foreign exchange. We must re-
main satisfied for years to come with
what is produced within our own Dor
ders.
This is an erroneous view.
| If our ships go out 10 North and
South America. India and Australia.
fully laden with German goods-and
this IS what we shall try 10 do. SO
to raise our cxchange-they must not
be allowed to return empty. That
would be bad business. They must.
therefore. return with carsces of food
stuTs we'll as OF raw material.
| We might even go SO far TO say
that foodstufs will be our most essen
tial postwar import for without them
our industries will hardly be in a posi-
! ton to take up peace-timc competition
| with success.
! Our nutrition must first be placed on
L sound basis.
ENGLAND. FRANCE AND
RUSSIA BEST CUSTOMERS
We must not forget that the greater
4 ma r. oT
days was conducted with England.
! More than three OF our OK
ports went to European countries Our
best customers were England. France
and Russia, who. in 1913. paid us more
than three millard marks SI50,0OO,-
ooO) for our goods. while Italy and Bel
GUM paid US about another millard.
Moreover, it needs no proving that
| the longer the war lasts, and the more
peoples side with the entcnte-thcrc
are over two dozen OF them already
the more difficult it will bej to resume
| commercial relations. \ copious mass
Of hatred and bitterness is being stored
UP against US as a result of certain
concomitants of the war. not only in
enemy countries. bu, also among ncu-
| trails. Our merchants abroad will have
TO suffer for the manfol sins of circles
which need not now be particr larizcd.
THE LiBEnALITY OF BRITISH
POLICY SHOWN ny FIGURES
II Is necessary also TO combat tho
| erroneous view that previous to the
war the English hampered our world
economic activities. The statistics arc
sufficient to prove the contrary. Com
pare, Tor instance, the following fig
ureS:
German imports into British India:
lSoo ........... SIS million marks
1919. $50 million marks
Into British Africa:
lSoo- ........... "3 million marks
ISi" ..2s million marks
Into Egypt:
l'oo. .............. .lo.1 million marks
4'lo .l1S.4 million marks
hese hsures show that the English
placed no obstacles in the way of our
steadily increasing trade with the
countries under their control
As significant Indication of the
trend OF American feeling toward; us
we aod an extract from a speech by Mr.
Redaeid. the Secretary Of Commerce in
iresiocnt Wilson'S administration, de-
livered at the Southern Commercial
When peace shall come, and her
merchants take up the task OF res,or-
ing Germany's ruined commerce. thev
Will find that it is stran1e world
which they seek to re-enter. There
will be difficulties in the way Of futpre
peaceful penetration of which they
seem not to dream 1t viii hardly no
SAID again TO any Secretary OF Com
GERMAN dyestuff verein will not hermit
the establishment OF an American dyo
SUM industry. The monopolics on
which German foreign commerce !,
larse part seemed to rest secure will
nave passed away.
our friends beyond the sea and We
ourselves have learned the darrar 80
having our industries wholly dcncndc,t
on foreign sources OF s,,nn,,. ,,,;o,,
may become unfricndly. IL is pitiful
to read extracts from the C;orn,,, nro
which seem to show that they cxncct
10 take up the task of rebuilding ,bcir
commerce where they laid II down
Ihey reckon tho worlds demand for
potash as purely German asset II
was so, but II is no longer. They were
the worlds source for dvesturs TIA,
opportunity has gone IL was thov 10
"noH the world looked for optical
siass we do not look there now.
ihey were the course Of supply Of
chemical porcelain. We make i, TODAY
as wei as they. They had applied
science to industry more than anv
otner people, and had built IN indus
l.hi power by means others had
neglected. We have learned that les.
SON ALSO"