Evening star., 1928-02-12


! During the calendar year 1925, 302.0
| miles were flown and 2,1l6 passengers.
376.730 pounds of passengers. baggage
and freight and 58.608 pounds OF mall
were carried. The company Is under
| German Austrian management. with
German aircraft and personnel. and has
a capitalization of about S500,000.
A German Junkers air mission has
operated in Argentina for several
years. although recently is suspend
ed its service between Buenos
Ares and Montevideo. Another
| German concern, the Kondor SYM
dikat has sent aircraft and person.
| mel to Brazil and has organized local
! corporation with view 10 selling air
craft and employing German personnel
| in air services to be developed in south
| ern Brazil The Compania Lloyd Aero
| Boliviana was formed In Bolivia by
agents of the Junkers group late in
1925. following the gift of German air.
| craft to the government on the occa-
sion Of the countrys centenary of inde-
pendence. German aircraft and per-
sonnel are engaged in maintaining vari-
Gus services in that country. 1t has
been reported that the company has
Bolivian and Chilean cities. Other in
craft and employ trained Germans in
Latin America are numerous.
Development Of Shipping.
An important angle of this postwar
German drive in Latin America is the
development of shipping, which was. OF
course. a conspicuous feature Of her ac-
tivities in that field before 1914. In
deed, the Hamburg American Line and
the chain of German branch banks
formed the spearhead Of the pre-war
German trade offensive. That great
shipping organization was just at the
height Of a most vigorous squirt, par
ticularly In the River Plate. at Panama,
the Virgin Islands and other Caribbean
points. when the war broke out.
Today German shipping has we'll over
3.500.000 tons. Although this is still
tai, the present fleet Is almost entirely
new. much of 1t equipped with Diesel
engines and with wide range of spe-
cialized installations for tropical traffic.
notably refrigerator space for meats and
fruits, comfortable passenger accommo-
dations. etc. It has, therefore, dis
tinct advantage over many Of its Brit
ish and American rivals in this trade.
Better communication facilities with
Latin America-more cables and better
mail Services-are also being stressed.
The opening OF radiotelephone service
between Berlin and Buenos Aires last
Summer is but one example.
There has been a widespread renewal
Of the old pre-war Spanish language
press In Germany, particularly In tech
out Latin America. II Is true that the
standards OF these publications are still
below those OF comparable American
trade papers and magazines. Never
theiess. the Germans are already dis
playing unusual ingenuity In this field
and are endeavoring TO duplicate some
of the better American examples.
Particularly strenuous efforts are be-
ing made TO introduce a renewal OF the
old flow of Latin American students TO
the technical schools and colleges OF
Germany. It frankly may be doubted,
however, whether this Is likely to occur
In any volume for many years TO come.
There are now some 1000 such students
In the United States, and the number is
increasing steadily. particularly as the
America that the technical problems In
VOWED In the exploitation OF her vast
latent resources are strikingly similar to
those which have been but recently en-
countered.
! This applies of course. especially TO
the operation OF OIL wells and mines. the
construction Of highways, the cxploita-
ton Of timber lands and the. develop
ment of reclamation and drainage prof.
ects. Save for certain highly specialized
scientific refinementS OF work In these
fields, II may be frankly questioned
whether even the highest German tech
nicai schools could compete with the at
fractions available for Latin American
students In dozens OF American institu-
tons.
A feature OF this German drive. which
will become increasingly conspicuous as
time goes on, Is the cohesion among the
various elements interested In her over
seas economic effort. This was. OF
course, an outstanding characteristic OF
her pYe-war activitics-thc close col
laboration and. In fact, actually unified
direction OF the branch banks, shipping
agencies. industrial groups and trade
bodies, all working In close contact with
the government. For time after the
war this well knit. unified operation
was. Of course. disrupted. but we are
now beginning 10 see evidences OF It's
revival. even though the large elements
involved have not developed that de-
| gree Of closely interlocked direction
which was 70 noteworthy a feature of
Germany's economic policy before 1914
! German Campaign.
In recent months there have been
evident in different Latin American
! trade centers variety OF organized
| German banking and shipping cam
| pai2n8, involving increasing credits,
| freight rate reductions. lowering of din
! counts on foreign bills. negotiation Of
| new commercial treaties and the estab-
| iishment Of German chambers 0f com
nerce. Literature and motion pictures
| on German industries were being dis
| tributed. especially by one active float
| ing exhibit" which also carried guam
| titles 0f samples.
! Thsse features sre mentioned not In
| the least as In justification Of alarm.
! because. a. VIII be shown below there
| IL H. yet no indication whatever Of sefi~
Gus inroads upon American trade. New
frthelcbs II liz well O be Informed Of
the trend 0f new developments IN order
! ~ take care 0f any more serious con-
/ tingency which might afit4.
/ The consolidation of German indus
! tries and tbs rsmificatiOns of the cartel
0r trust movement Oh International
! lines. with conspicuous German partict-
| patton, In another outstanding feature
vi these newer developments In the
German Latin American program. The
movement for horizontal classification
| within Germany has been gathering
considerable momentum; the percentage
III each industry which ~ now consoli-
dated is very substantial; Potash. DB
/ per cent; chemicals tmOstly dyes, 9g,3
per cent: electrical industry, 81 per
/ rent fnaf mining al neF FHnIf ffGF, Il al
steel industry. 90 per cent; Insurance,
n per cent. eb. IN other words, the
etohe amaieamati0p f these various
sfu4 III economic Germany hak been
proceeding space and has resulted H. b
type of consultation quite beyond The
pale III American law
In The International cartel mnYenlent