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Show TO ISOLATE EMPIRE . ! ' AFTERWAR IS OVER French Commercial Advocates Advo-cates Move Toward Reprisal Re-prisal on Germany. BOYCOTT GAINS FAVOR Determination Is to Completely Com-pletely Cut Off Teu- 1 V1 . tons in Trading. , Special Cable to The Tribune. J PARIS, July 8. There is a very- strong movement afoot in Franco to refuse to have dealings with Germans j after the war is over. Not only do the advocates of the ostracizing os-tracizing of Germany intend to try to ! , close the frontiers of France to all I products of German industry, but they j also declare that no goods of French origin en route for Russia shall be sent j over German railroads. Germany after j the war is to find herself cut off en- i tirely from the neighbors whose homos ' she invaded. I That the same feeling exists in some 1 leading Russian circles is evident from j- an utterance of the president of the l duma while he was visiting this city. ''Neither I, nor my children, nor my grandchildren, M he said, speaking of I Germany, " shall ever put foot in that accursed land. 5 ' , "It is the merchant fleets of the j North sea, the Baltic and the Mediter ranean," savs the Petit Journal, "which in the future ar to be the means by which our people and mer- ' x chandise, in ever increasing volume, will ' go to Russia via Riga, Libau, Petro- l grad, Constantinople and Odessa. i Fast Boat Service. "A service of fast boats will be able ; 'to cover Lilts uiauaucu ucuwoon juhiyii n. j and Petrograd almost as quickly as the trains do. "Is there anyone among us who would not be delighted to be able to avoid the trip through central Europe " and arrive on board a Russian or I French boat straight in the country of ' our allies? "We have built leviathans which cover the distance between Brest and New York i in less than Ave days. At this rate of i apeed It would take only sixty hours to ! travel from one capital to the other, or at least from Calais to Cronstadt, the port of Petrograd. There Is no reason why the annual value of our trade with the Russian empire, which Is at present more than $100,000,000, should not reach the same figure as our trade with the United States, which is more than $260,000,000 a year. Passengers should be even more numerous, since the trip is only one-third as long." To Build Steamers. The president of the Compagnle General Gen-eral Transatlantlque, Charles Roux, advises ad-vises the formation of a Franco-Russian company for the purpose of building a number of. steamers, which should be ready to etart immediately on conclusion of peace. The idea has been taken up enthusiastically enthusi-astically by the Paris chamber of commerce, com-merce, whose president, David Monnet, Is working hard for the foundation of a college col-lege where the Russian lanaruage Is to j be tauffht free of charge to young Frenoh- , men. I "The political remodeling which will .follow after the war should be accompanied accompa-nied bj' a veritable economic revolution," writes Raphael-Georges Levy, member of I the French Institute. "The allies will no longer be foolish enough to leave the greater part of their commerce in the ' hands of the enemy. They have dlscov- ered that they can supply each other mu tually with all the raw materials and manufactured goods which they formerly j received from Germany and Austria. Great Field Open. "They know that the 800, 000, 000 human beings who inhabit Frnnce, England, Russia, Japan, Belgium and Serbia, with rji their colonies, form an Immense field of consumers, capable of absorbing the entire en-tire production of the allies. t. . "It will be a difficult and exceedingly laborious task to arrange their future custom policy, but this work will be insignificant in-significant in comparison with the combined com-bined effort they are now making on land and sea. "The essential thing will be to approach this part of our common task in a broad-minded broad-minded and liberal manner, and always keep the goal in sight which must be reached to seal the military compact, concluded In the face of the German danger, dan-ger, by a close and deflnlto economic entente. In this field, too, as on the battlefield, we ore sure of victory." |