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Show lated by Information coming to the officials of-ficials here that the Teutonic powers already al-ready have Inaugurated a great system of control of raw materials needed for German industries. Cartels have been formed with the object of accumulating vast stores of wool, cotton, copper, tin and other basic raw materials. Great stores of them are known to be In existence ex-istence in neutral countries, ready to be poured into Germany the moment the sea lanes are opened, and the German plotters have invaded America and England. En-gland. A recent lawsuit In New York developed that a large quantity of wool had been stored in Jersey City by a firm friendly to Germany. In the United States the tariff system affords the basis for steps to meet an attack upon the world's store of raw materials. ma-terials. But the British free trade system, sys-tem, it is pointed out, makes necessary special safeguards. UNITED STATES WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY ANNOUNCEMENT WASHINGTON. May 14. As there is no commercial treaty between America and Great Britain, the announced purpose pur-pose of the British government to denounce de-nounce all such conventions where they contain the most favored nation clause will have no direct effect upon the commerce com-merce of the United States. Tariff experts ex-perts here pointed out today that Great Britain always has voluntarily conceded faVored nation treatment to American imports. It is learned in official quarters that the an noun cement in the house of commons com-mons by Andrew Bonar Law is a step in the development of the Idea that the nations now fighting the central powers on the field of battle must join hands to maintain their industries intact against (Jermanic aggression in the after-the-war .commercial struggle. Germany Warned. President Wilson himself has warned Germany that she cannot expect to reap the advantages of unrestricted commercial commer-cial intercourse with America if she persists per-sists In the policies maintained by the present military regime, and It Is now known that since that utterance there hag been an exchange of Ideas between the commercial interests in the allied and friendly neutral business interests in Europe Eu-rope and America with the purpose of crystallizing the suggestion Into a workable work-able policy. Action of this kind has been stimu- |