Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-14 | Page 10 | English Merchants after Cuban Trade

ENGLISH MERCHANTS AFTER CUBAN TRADE (By International News Service) LONDON The Manchester chamber of commerce proposes the establishment establish-ment of direct steamship communication communica-tion Manchester and Cuba, according to reports received by the Amorican Chamber of Commerce here. Prior to tho war Germany was industriously in-dustriously cultivating the Cuban mar-(ket. mar-(ket. German houses furnished elaborate elab-orate samples and gave extensive ! credits. Tho British manufacturers are said to have awakened to the realization re-alization that Amorican merchants are working on the same lines and a deter-1 mined effort is to be made to secure that Cuban market for British goods. It is also stntod that part of the .program for taking the Cuban trade jwill consist of the intelligent distribu , ticn of trade literature printed in iS.panish and giving the prices In dol-jlars dol-jlars wherever possible. j