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BAIUN FEARED
LOSS OF TRADE
AFiER THE WAR
SIDNEY, Australia.—Albert Bal
lin, general director of the Ham
burg-American Steamship Co. who
is reported to have committed sui
cide just before the signing of the
armistice, had predicted disaster
for the German overseas trade as
an outcome of the war. This is dis
closed by the publication here of a
letter which Herr Ballin had written
in December, 1917, apparently to
Dr. Rothenau, a privy councilor at
Berlin. A copy of this letter was
made public here by J. M. Paxton,
a resident of Sydney, who received
it from a friend in London. In it
Ballin declared that whether Ger
many or England was victorious in
the war the consequences to Ger
man foreign trade would be dis
astrous. The letter reads in part:
“Most of what we read in the
newspapers as to our preparedness
for embarking on brisk trade and
manufactures as soon as peace has
been concluded is. 1 fear, written
with the manifest intention of
heartening our people who are no
toriously ignorant of our actual
economic conditions and all that
threatens them."
He said that the German mercan
tile marine was in a “perilous con
dition”, -and that the bill to re
establish anti strengthen it, which
at the time of writing was before
the Reichstag, would show no re
sults for at least five years. In
that time Germany’s great mari
time competitors, Britain, and the
United States and Japan and the
neutrals Norway, Denmark and
Holland would profit enormously.
Ballin reminded his friend that
he (Ballin) vainly begged Berlin
authorities not to engage in un
restricted submarine warfare, and
he continued:
“You and 1 know that the Amer
icans are probably the most ideal
istic nation on the earth’s surface.
In antagonizing America we have
done a disastrous thing, a thing
which will throw a cold shadow on
our economic life for a generation."
The latter part of Baltin’s letter
ran:
“But if I am concerned about our
relations with the United States, I
am still more anxious about our re
lations with Britain. 1 realize as
never before that all the increase
in our wealth, all the success which
attended our enterprises in the
year before the war, were owing
to our intercourse with the Brit
ish Empire. Her home ports, her
dominions and colonies were freely
opened to our shippers and traders.
Sometimes I wondered at this gen
erosity, and even called it folly.
Is it to be imagined for a moment
that these old relations will return?
“I am not to be supposed, dear
Herr Geheimrat, (privy councilor)
as saying one word in favor of
Britain’s policy in this war. 1 be
lieve she entered it from some base
motives.
“Consider what we are risking.
We look forward to resuming our
sea trade. We build our proudest
expectations on this. How are we
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to resume it in face of an Anglo
Saxondom which loathes and must
loathe our presence among them.
“But we must beat England, you
say, no matter what the conse
quences. 1 agree. All I say is
that whether we beat her or she
beats us the consequences will be
the same—disaster to our oversea
trade if Britain so wills it. We
may. in the event of victory, impose
all sorts of conditions securing us
most-favored-nation treatment, se
curing us free entry into British
ports everywhere. No sane be
lieves that these conditions will
help us.
i “With a hostile British Empire,
galled and fretted with our mili
tary success, raging at its losses,
hopelessly alienated, how are we to
procure the raw material which this
empire alone can supply. That
great empire is self-contained and
we are not, and all the military vic
tories and all the wild will-o-the
wisps about ‘Hamburg to Bagdad.'
will not help us.”
Herr Ballin died suddenly in
Berlin on Nov. !>. The cause of his
death has not been officially stated,
but it has been reported that he
had been summoned to the German
army headquarters and criticised by
General Ludendorf for opposing
plans of the military party and that
Ballin then appealed to the then
German emperor, who sustained
Ludendorf’s statements, and sug
gested that Ballin either adopt them
or retire from public life. There
after, according to reports, Ballin
appeared to be greatly depressed
in spirit. Some reports received in
London stated that he had com
mitted suicide.
MANY GERMAN “DUDS”
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LONDON. -Of the many stories
of heroism during the war on which
official records are silent but which
are being brought forth with re
laxation of the censorship, is that
of Captain Larcombe of the anti
aircraft defenses of the London dis
trict. His job for four years has
been to find and dispose of German
aerial bombs that failed to explode
when dropped on London.
After each air-raid, and in the
early part of the war there were
many. Larcombe and his men
would go about the city seeking the
I “duds." It was dangerous work ex
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tricating them from wherever they
happened to drop, transporting them
out of the city and exploding or
otherwise destroying them. Dur
ing the excitement after a raid few
people thought of the bombs that
failed to “go off” but all of them
have ceased to be a menace to* the1
city.
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