The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-02
ALLIED NATIONS MAKE PLANS ID
 CONTROL TRADE

WASHINGTON.-Allied control of raw materials after the war is perhaps receiving more serious at tenton from the British than any other postwar policy, according to advices received by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
 Phillip B. Kennedy. American attache at London, in a report to Washington officials, says that after the British government has per fected with the dominion govern ments a plan for obtaining control of materials in the British Empire, it is expected that representations will be made to the United States and other allied countries for some common action.
 Important meetings of the I'm perial War Conference and the I'm peTldl W dF CdDlHel were Helu III London during July, he says, at which time prime ministers and others representing the dominions were present. The conference is a deliberate body which reports its de- cisions to the cabinet, more execu- fi,-a n,,actjnnc of perial policy were discussed at the meetings, which were regarded of unusual authority because of the prominence of the conferees
 A special committee of the con- ference was appointed to consider the best methods by which essential raw materials may be controlled and Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, has informed Parliament that arrangements being made with the dominion government for the control of materials are to be the basis for beginning negotiations with other countries.
 Close imperial cooperation in matters of economic policy is fav- ored by the dominion representa- tives, judging from their utterances, Mir. Kennedy reports. He adds that , Australia and New Zealand are in- terested in retaining the German colonies in the Pacific and in com- batting German trade after the war. The dominions were asked to pass laws similar to the British non- ferrous metal industries act. which makes 1t necessary to obtain licenses to trade in metals. Such legisla- tion is designed to free the British Empire from dependence on German controlled organization.
 Another important resolution adopted by the conference under. stood to have asked the dominions to cooperate with the imperial gov ernment in protecting the develop. ' ing British dye industry.
 The conference also considered questions relating to the develop
 ment of lnter-empire trade, such a: , transport, news service, parcel post statistics and emigration. Improved steamship connections between Great Britain and the dominions was fav ' ored, also more comprehensive
 news service at cheaper cable toll:
 and coming from a strictly British
 source. A statistical bureau wa: !, proposed for London, which would ;, compile and transmit information
 from different parts of the empire
 Although the dominion repre- sentatives desire immediate consid E. eration of the important question: ', relating to the close cooperation :, of different parts of the empire Q MT. Kennedy points out that it is
 not certain that the British govern ment will be prepared to perfect T; finally a program of future econ
 omic policy during the war. He says MT. Law regards this problem
 one for solution after the war.
 Ii None of the meetings openly dis
 cussed preference tariff, accord
 ing to Mir. Kennedy. Such a polio,