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Show German Business Realize Nation's Na-tion's Enemies Will Have Grave Bearing on Trade. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 6. In tho midst of tho general exultation in Germany Ger-many over tho victories on the Isonz.o and Riga fronts and tho demands for revision of the peace program in accordance ac-cordance with the new war map, German Ger-man business classes are boginning to obey the injunction to consider the commercial map as well. An Increasing Increas-ing amount of attention is devoted by the newspapers to the growing difficulties difficul-ties of re-establishing German foroign trade after the war. Articles In serious newspapers, even of Pan-German views, are found almost every day in which it is pointpd out that diplomatic breaks with China and Central and South America republics, instead of being be-ing a source of amusement on account of the military unimportance of these nations, mean the loss of Germany's hard won commercial position In these markets and increase thcwdifTiculties of the' uphill fight to rebuild the foreign trade after the war. Incurpcrable Difficulties Ahead. Business men protest that these difficulties dif-ficulties will be virtually insuperable if the government persists in its plan of establishing control of imports and shipping after the return of peace and I of restricting private initiative. Some 1 of them go farther and demand indem-I indem-I nification by the state of men engaged en-gaged in foreign trade for war losses, I and state financial assistance in the post helium offensive against foreign markets. The thought that German shipping might be baned or restricted in the ports of Germany's present enemies, which long have been scoffed at by-shipping by-shipping and export experts, has now I come home to the business world as a j real menace. Discussion of peace conditions, con-ditions, even in the most virulent Pan- German war organs emphasize the ne- cesslty of again procuring for German I shipping the most favored nation treat-. treat-. ment In foreign harbors which is formerly for-merly has enjoyed as a vital condition .of the settlement after the war. Con-Isiderable Con-Isiderable attention Is devoted to the re-j re-j form of the British .consular service, and the demand is voiced that meas-, meas-, ures be taken without delay to bring jthe German consular and trade intelli-j intelli-j gence services up to date and that all preparations be made during the war so that the German trades may have a favorable start in the race to secure raw materials the instant international internation-al peace is concluded. I Situation Keenly Realized. The situation is realized with espe-, espe-, cial keenness in Hamburg where in repeated articles by business experts the government has been warned that the plans to promote the recoverv of German exchange and keep down prices pric-es by establishing an official purchasing purchas-ing monopoly would result in rival na- tions scouring the scanty world supplv of foodstuffs and raw materials. . Slough of Ruin Coming. I There is a well authenticated story of a conference between Emperor William, Wil-liam, .Field Marshal Von Hindenburg, General Von Ludendorf and Albert Ballin.Jiead of the Hamburg-American line, during last summer in which the Hamburg shipping magnate, after listening lis-tening to the glowing account of the military situation, given by the mill- tary leaders, told the emperor that every ev-ery extra month of the war meant an additional year in getting out of the : slough of ruin after the war. He declared de-clared ho did not expect to live to see Germany out of her difficulties. |