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Show HAMBURG'S SHI? TRADE IS DEI Once Crowded Harbor Shows Decay of German Imperial Aggressiveness HAMBURG, Aug. 21. In one Jay last week VI stean.ers passed Cuxha-1 ver. on the way to Hamburg or to en-i ter the Kiel canal 'i hi was the larg-1 st number of ships to come into the, I5!bo in 24 hours 3lnce tho early days; of the war. und the event was hailed with intenre satisfaction here as a sign, of better times. Klve years ago !t was, a dull day when only a seoie of vessels ves-sels arrived The Hamburg-Amerl-I can line alone usually had from 26 to; JO big ships In port and IIim harbor wan so crowded with Shipping that thej problem of docking often became i acute- In thoso days few flags other than' those of the German companies were seen In the harbor. Today Hanibutg Is literally under foreign colors. Ship-p'.nc Ship-p'.nc companies of all the- principal na- t'.ons have set up offices here and the formerly powerful German lines, hav-j lug lost their ships, aro acting now only as agents American, British, Jiip.-ineae, Trench. Italia::, Spanish Putch und Brazilian companies display their advertisements in the shipping p.ipers. Advertisements of German concerns are BO few that one must; search for them There is some life again In the' harbbr but the ships arc nearly all foreign. one p.-i&ses long rows of splendidly equipped docks .iiul warehouses, ware-houses, once a hive of Industry but now empt and still. And in the ab-', ser.ee of the many ships that used to' moke Hamburg .- thriving commercial center, trade has died away and the great market places on the waterfront org practically deserted. Before the war Hamburg had become one of Ku-rope's Ku-rope's chief col'feo markets. Now onlv a few sncks of that staple find their in here. While Hamburg was losing its glory ns a port, death was taking a heavy toll of the so-called "royal hads" of! the big German companies Including Albert Ballin, president ui Iho Hamburg-American line and tho biothers Adolpli ; nd Kdwurd Uocrminn who guided the affairs of the great Woer-mann Woer-mann Indian and African lines. "Af-! rica House," the scene of their labors, was the nerve center of Germany s' i i.st colonial trade. It stands today a silent .memorial of German imperialism. imperial-ism. It Is realised that Hamburg faces a' long up-hill struggle to rega n its prewar pre-war prestige. A well known banker told the correspondent he believed; Hamburg had Irretrievably lost Its financial fi-nancial power ;md would never again enjoy the Independent position it had In the pS |