The Mena weekly star., 1921-03-31
STARTLING GAINS
 IN GERMAN TRADE
Foreign Business of America Menaced Everywhere by Nation With Whom We are Still at War, It Is Shown
 To Build up Merchant Fleet.

Washington, March 27.-Germany has come back commercially with startling speed and success, official re- ports disclosed here tonight. Govern ments agents were astonished when it was revealed that competition of country with which we are technically still at war is menacing our foreign trade almost everywhere.
 1t was disclosed that Germany has determined upon commercial policy to be directed especially against the United States and England. Her pri- mark foreign trade policy is to under sell this country in Latin America and England in India and Asia.
 Statesmen Out in Swarms. German salesmen are swarming in- to most of the important markets of the world. promising lower prices, bet ter goods and longer credits, according l to information here. German under | selling has taken away the tool and machinery trade of Holland, 78 per 1 cent of which was American before the war. It has taken our electrical business in Chile and has seriously hurt our general export business in | Argentina, Brazil, other South Amer ican countries and Mexico, govern ment figures show.
 The net results of Germany's come back" have been to regain more than half the foreign trade she possessed before the war; according to estimates here. She is now selling England twice as many toys as at the peak of the pre-war period Her total foreign trade with the United States increased fourfold last year, and has shown pro- gressive increases this year.
 Manufacture at Low Cost.
 Germany can manufacture at cost
 very much below world prices now,
 because of her industrial condition. In
 addition to that, she can sell at big
 added profits because of exchange
 disparity. The German world trade
 machine is backed by huge trusts, or
 ganized since the war, upon larger
 scale that their pre-war predecessors , The biggest of these are the potash drugs, dyes and chemicals, electrical
 iron, steel and machinery and ship ping combines.
 : Individual rivalries arc merged int r the common campaign for gaining for . eign trade for Germany. All Ger
 man exporters have been organize, into an association which works with g and is supported by, the German for f eign office -and both of these function ' in understanding with the maste c minds of the trust group, reports re Q ceived here said
 n What the Germans are Doing.
 The campaign calls for landing tn ! first markets at any cost by syster < of scientific der-bidding.' Result II being accomplished. as reported hers T show:
 r German quotations eH certain stes !; products, cotton goods, enamelwar' II glassware, paper and other eommod q ties in India are liar below eithe V American or British prices" 's German traders are undersellin !. Americans in practically every line ~ ~ Spain, in many lines in Mexico, Argel aa tina, Brazil and Chile.
 II In Holland and Scandinavia Ge T. mans are underselling in practical .. everything.
 - ', Germany is attempting to negotia aa preferred nation" commerci
 treaty with China. This has been he
 up by China, in order to await poll,
 indications from the United States. n- also is reported unoffieially that orie
 tai trade agreements are being soug
 with Japan by Germany. D. To Build up Merchant Fleet. ef, Reports also showed that Germ lai shipping reorganization is under wa he The North German Lloyd recent set doubled it's equalization in order to he shipbuilding contracts.
 his Plans are being effected for sect ses ing large stocks of raw wool fro a South American and South Africa
 German nanufactnrers- In South