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Show C03IPETITI0N BEGINS. Advices from London indicate that American and British foreign trade interests in-terests have resumed their accustomed pre-war code and the competition for the commercial conquest of Germany and othuT recently enemy countries is well under way. "While the making of treaties continues in Faris, the business world is fipjurinix out future trade possibilities. pos-sibilities. Sent i mental considerations are bcin eliminated. Tho dollar and the pound are what business is seeking. It may be accepted that a sharpness of competition unnpproaehed in prewar pre-war days will characterize the conduct of f ouMu trade activities during the next few years. America's possession of raw materials, her facilities for quantity production and the fact that her industrial machinery is not so eloped with strikes and other labor disturbances, which are so seriously impairing im-pairing British trade, insure the United States a lair proportion of this postwar post-war business in continental Kurope. But a voluminous foreign trade will be essentially a ''now gamo'' for the American manufacturer and exporter, since it is a trado brought by the upheaval up-heaval of "war and must be studiously and carefully developed. British trad- 'ers are building hopes on the inexperience inexperi-ence of their American competitors, which, they expect, will offset in a measure the advantages which now j favor American trad' bidders. |