Show I Ger German an Aggressiveness I 1 IT ANY kind hearted Am Americans ricans who have be been n touched by persistent persistent per per- MANY M appeals for financial and other kinds of aid that have been coming coming- out coming out of Germany practicably ly since ince the day Y of the h signing of the ar i. i e. e v Phat p perhaps will be e surprised s to tf learn ar arnat nat hat nearly every countr country y in Europe has reported at various vanous times I Of f being beinO g overrun by German industrial agents and of being J swamped with German go goods gonds ds I The latest report of this character and which is accompanied m I jy b by a vigorous protest comes I England Englan It is d declared by a ak k London ondon that the eat g eat trade w war r has begun and that BL Britain has lost the first battle The Germans it is declared t aye Ye s swarmed armed over the top and ca captured tu e t the e English market wit wite with e i swift swiftness ess and e ease se that h has s surprised every everybody bodY ody ji It is declared that a flood of German toys hardware hardware stat sta sta- butt buttons an and novelties l ies have av swept into British h i t on ry pianos ns stores tores and tind that the prices ar are so l low w that co competition p see seems seems 1 J J. J impossible m J. J For years years preceding preceding- the opening of the world war England Englan like America merica depended to a great extent upon Germany to supply i. i I I the market for toys There were only thirty firms making toys toy in England to the war war and practically all of the toy 1 supply was shut off when hosti hostilities began To ro prevent a Christmas and in response to o. o an appeal from th the government nearly a a. a thousand fir firms s began the the manufacture of toys and the they now employ about people a large percentage of whom t are a re disabled soldiers soldier but it is declared that in an an ope open market athey they ey cannot compete either in quality or price with the of Nuremberg i Eighty British firms compared with three before the war war now now are are making dolls doUs but they cannot compete with the German It is stated that there is not a proper proper potters potter's ov oven n for making dolls dolls' heads in m any anyone one of the eighty king plants land and nd German dolls doUs now are b being S ing offered at half of the English I prices prices Perhaps there is a positive connection between these conditions conditions conditions condi condi- and the report coming from Berlin that German workmen have undergone a great change of attitude toward economic questions ques ions in the last ast few weeks It is declared that many favor a reduction redu ion in the cost of living rather than higher wages wages wages' arid and are advocating a ten hour day as against an hour eight day as the I only means of increasing of-increasing production and easing the conditions of II living t At 1 any rate there can be no d doubt as as to German Gernian aggressive aggressive- aggressive I in peace and nd war var and there is more than a possibility that before many months months- if not weeks complaints will be voiced that German goods of some varieties at least are are swamping the he American markets h |