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Show GEIH REEDS UPEMPPL! Immense Tonnage Would Be Ordered if Credits Could Be Arranged. "Gormar.y would buy dO.OO tons of copper cop-per overnight if she could obtain sufficient suffi-cient credits here." says a representative of a large producer that prior to the war sold 40 per cent of Its copper to Kurope. "She would buy it because she r.f--ls It badly needs It to protect her oriental and South American trade in brass from Japanese Jap-anese attack." Furthermore, Kurope and Germany included. w:ll in his o: inion soon get crerhts for financing adequately their copper reeds. "The war revolutionized Japanese manufacturing. Before tho war she found It impossible to carry on mass production efficiently. The Japanese did not have the inr.ate ability for developing efficient factory fac-tory management, and trw-y seemed to find it impossible to get into close enough contact with American and Kuropean factory fac-tory work to assimilate its essentials sufficiently suf-ficiently to develop efficient management bv imitation. Her manufacturing, therefore, there-fore, remained on a small scale basis and wa unimportant. "The war changed all that. American and Kuropean experts took charge of Japanese Jap-anese factories, and taught the; Jnnanrse mass production so zla thus to increase munitions and other outputs for the allies al-lies Now. thanks to her cVap labor, high Initiative ability and this recently acquir-a ernctency in iacor vui, j.iia... is starting unon a great industr.al expansion. ex-pansion. As Japan received her best and most thorough training in munitions work, this makes its appearance first in brass-making and the export of brass manufactures. "Germanv had established p-ior to tho war an immense export trade in brass with the orient and South America. It was in small articled of general traue reja-tlvelv reja-tlvelv unimportant In themselves. Other nation, therefore, did not appreciate Its magnitude in the aftKregate. Japan, looking look-ing around for a way to vent her newly acquired skill in brass manufacture, discovered dis-covered the opening. Already she is after It with vision and determination. Recent buvine of copper by Japanese for Import, wh'le in th past she has been a large exporter ex-porter of crude cupper, is to satisty the requirements of her rap;d:y expanomg export ex-port trade in brass manufactures to tnose formerly German markets. "Already Japan is sending goodiy amounts of brass smallware to faouth American and oriental countries. Recently Re-cently she has shipped bra." 8 gooda even here Double freights prevent her from underselling here. Iut in South America and the orient, thanks to her cheap labor and the newly acquired factory eiiiclency, she probably can undersell all competi- "Germany realizes fully the pressing necessity ne-cessity of re-entering South American markets immediately with brass goods if she Is to retain them. That is one rea-eon rea-eon why Germany in so desirous of obtaining ob-taining adequate credit: here at as early a date as possible. Boston News bureau. |