GERMANY’S SUPREMACY
WAS LARGELY IMAGINARY
WASHINGTON. July Hi I •ersistent
stories of Germany's commend,.!
achie\ 'llent • in Smith ami Gentiai
\mera i ami 11::■ gfiierall) ;e i epti i
boas! i lia t <ii. a.an gnm! had niiii
pleie|\ ruptured those market.-, lad*
under ihc intejilight w>! careful in
vestigalion into merely German prop
Uganda. < in Tiled with tin- idea «»!
s at a : .11 o h. r competitors out ot
I lie field.
Willi'in < Veil*, chief statistician
for the Pan Ameri an Union. is author
ity tor the statement that for several
years before (he war German) actually
was losing ground in South and Gen
tral America and that the greatest
gains wen* made by tin* Unite.1 States.
“Just prior to the European war."
says Mr Wells. "German trade in most
of Latin America was in danger ol
immediate dissolution. Eor thirty
years, it is true. German trade showed
a large and progressive growth but
this was almost entirely at tin ex
pense ol France In l'.'ll. German
trade reached its apex. In Argentina
was centered the German efforts to
e | 'tire I. it m American trade In I'.G 1
tin- peiveii; ige u: imports irom the
seven hading commericial countrL s
to \igeiitina were as follows United
Kingdom. L’lcu. Germany. lv United
States. 1 I : Italy, x; Frair e, i •• t;
Belgium. and Spain. :.l And this
was Germany's best year. In thirty
years Germany had increased her pro
portions of the Argentine trade !H per
cent, Italy gained 1M per cent, and
the United States gained 111 per cent.
All the other countries except Bel
gium lost. France the most heaviB
Most of the German gains were at her
expense.
In fourteen of the Latin American
countries, notwithstanding the stren
nous efforts made by the Germans to
acquire or to preserve the trade, the
result has been practically a failure
The imports from Germany in these
countries was only slightly over eleven
per cent of the whole and less than
one fourth of the imports from the
United States.
"Wonderful stories have been told
and are yet being told of German
commercial success in Latin America
The spreading of such stories is and
( always has been part of the German
I program. It creates an atmosphere
w hich is supposed to have a depressing
effect upon rivals. The English. 11a 1
! ian, French or American exporter!
is apt to he reticent about what he*
j is doing in foreign countries. Not
so the German. He claims everything
and then some.
"As illustrating that, some time ago
I a story came from Buenos Aires to the
! eect that agricultural machinery from
i the United States imported into Ar
gentina since the war was giving great
dissatisfaction; that German machin
ery used prior to the war was much
• better made and more suitable to the
country. This story, with much detail
i as to w hy the German machinery in
• general use in Argentina prior to
the war was better, was published
| extensively in the United States with
I no comment whatsoever. The facts!
: are that Germany had no hold on
Argentine agricultural machinery im-j
| ports. She had been ousted from this ■
* M iM'iro than twenty years ago—
horse, foot and dragoon. AiiH-rii.m
machinery had done the on .-ting
< ause if was l»ett»*r .iVid tuon- saital.l"
to t he eoui.t r> a lid tin . mp The
"dr was mure ini * ■ 11; • n t ly handled
hy American e xporters ami a. a e<»n
• qiieiiec t hey secured it
“Both German) and the I’nited
States are new entrants in the ra< o
for overseas trade in manufactures,
hut Germany was first in the field.
German manufacture's were pouring
into the Latin American field from
Mexico to Argentina in competition!
with British and French goods years
before the I’nited States was ship
ping any'thing to these countries, ex-j
cept flour, codfish, lumber and tin* like.
Yet in 1!* 1B. prior to the outbreak of1
the war. the Lnl'ed States had passed
Germam in fourteen ot the twenty!
countries ot Latin America that Is. j
■he i nned Si.it* ■ exceeded Germany!
m exports i• * t!ir-»* countries in tile
ratio of tuo'e than l to ! $1*7. 1
lir.n'.u; to $ i.'.x j.nu*
B f he rein:! ining : \ count rics ( \ r
•’"iitina. Brazil, i’liaauay. Bolivia and
LruL’”a>i th< I’nited Stale*;- trad** was
* \ ‘ r X" per e-eii? of tin- German trade-i
I’nif'd State - s I! 1.7. lo.’iS;,; (Ic-rintiliy, 1
1 771.744.271. l-’or the- whole twenty i
osntrie s the Lpited State’s trade »*\
cee-ded the- German exports in the pro-'
portion of :: to 1 f
“Figure's are sometimes eloquent if \
one knows how to re ad them, hut they
never tell quite the* whole story. Tim
point that tin* figures of trade with
Latin \meriea do not tell is that the*1
German trade was precarious, some
what artificial, and hy no means well
based. Its bases were long credits
and cheap goods Long credits and
cheapness are undoubtedly good halt j
with which to fish for trade hut not j
necessarily for the* best kind of trade.!
Furthe rmore, long credits and cheap !
ness are like* boomerangs, having aj
return curve often t<> the hurt of the*
user
“It was notorious that German
losses in Latin America were much
greater than British or American
losses Many well informed persons
believe them to he greater than both
combined. The Germans had what
amounted to almost a complete mo
nopoly of the had risks On the eon
trary, American losses from had
credits were almost negligible. The*
leading New York house in the* South
American export field, through one I
of Us officials, has stated that its
losses In South America, extending!
oevr a long period, amounted to a very
small fraction of one per cent.
“Germany treated Latin America as j
on a plane with Chinese and Central
Africans. It was thought that any j
thing might be sold if only cheap
enough Brice was everything; qual
ity nothing The result might have
been forseen. The flood of cheap,
flimsy and gaudy Brummagem wares j
that poured into Latin-America un
dermined the German reputation. The
German stamp on an article was a
grave handicap even when the ar
ticle itself was not bad. Even the
dishonest subterfuge of placing Amer
ican and English labels on German
goods did not save the situation."
DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME
IN NEWS TRANSMISSION
j LONDON, July 16.—The war haa
restored some of the old time romance
to the business of news-gathering
from places that Americans might re
gard as the far ends of the world.
When the American settles down In
his easy chair at night and lets his
eye run casually down the comma of
his favorite paper over tne date-lines
of the far corners of the world he
does not always realize what an ef
fort it often cost to lay before hint
the news of these far places.
Take some of the Associated Press
dispatches from Jassy, the capital of
| Rumania, for an exemple. Things
i were going pretty bad for little Ru
I mania last March The Bolshevik!
had turned things topsy turvy in Rus
sia and King Ferdinand's country was
left alone on the eastern front to face
the hordes of Germany and Austria.
I Rumania was quarreling with the Bol
| j sheviki over the position of Russian
■ J troops which had been on the Rumati
I j lan front There were serious posst
| bilitles for Rumania in the situation
There was an Associated Press cor
respondent in Jassy, but the only
way of getting news out was by the
j way of Odessa, where the Bolsheviki
held sway. Communication by wire
was impossible and no trains were
running as the bridges had been
destroyed
The Rumanian government was
sending Col Joseph Boyle, formerly
of the Canadian army, from Jassy to
Odessa In an airplane with a peace
treaty and when Colonel Boyle flow
miles over the mountains he car
ried not only the treaty but dis
patches from the Associated Press cor-'
respondent for forwarding to the j
United States.
That is how some of the news got!
started on Its way from Jassy, through j
Russia, Finland and Sweden to l.on- j
don and finally to America
RUSSIANS HU 1TE
MINISTER FROM BELGIUM
TOKIO, July 16.—Count Satiemusu
j Ogimachi, director-general of the
board of decorations of the cabinet, i
has been appointed gran dchamberlaln
to Emperor Yoshlhito as successor to
Prince Takasukasa who died recently I
Count Ogimachi entered the service!
of the imperial court as an attend
ant when lie was only eight years of
age. He has been a member of the
House of Peers since 1890 He is an
expert in ancient Japanese music, his
predecessors having been in the serv
ice of the court as court musicians.
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