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Show ONLY EIGHT FIRMS WANTEDTO EXHIBIT BERLIN, Sept. 10. The Commercial Treaty association, an organization do-voted do-voted to furthering Germany's export trade, today completed an Independent investigation as to the advisability of Germany participating In the Panama-Pacific Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco In 1915. It reached the same conclusion as the government commission and Is against German participation. Only eight firms, manufacturing lead toys and similar small specialties, wero found prepared to exhibit. lilght other concerns favore'd German participation, but themselves would not exhibit. Seventy Sev-enty manufacturers opposed representation representa-tion and the failure a! eevsral scores of nrms to rcpiv to tno association s request for Information Indicated that they wore not concerned In the exposition. Since the permanent exposition commission's com-mission's Investigation was alleged to have embraced chiefly the so called heavy industry, the Commercial Treaty association associa-tion addrees'cd firms manufacturing metal wares, machinery', textiles, porcolain, leather, rubbor, foodstuffs, eta, choosing these houses, which It was thought most probably would bo Interested In tho exposition, ex-position, and particularly the manufacturers manufac-turers exporting goods to the United States. About oncrthlrd of the answers were based on the American tariff policy. Another An-other third foresaw impractical resultB from this spoclol exposition becauso of San Francisco bolng so far away from the railroad centers and becauso Of tho cost of representation at this exhibition would be higher than ovor before. Many firms declared a decided principle against exhibiting In the future. |