To the Editor of the "Norra-Caixa Day News."
18,—From circular letters arriving by every mail it is clear that the Home-side firms are fully alive to the necessity of securing some portion of the trade hitherto mono-Polized by German firms. American firms likewise are seeking to benefit at the expense of Germany, but with them we are not concerned.
May I suggest that British firms look down the hong lists and pick out the British agencies of every kind at present held by non-British firms and do their best to induce the principals at home to canoe! ones with British houses?
Certain lines hitherto almost exclusively handled by Germans ought certainly to be transferred to makers, viz,; cotton socks, ious qualities of paper, drugs and chemianls, piece trimmings, fancy buttons, notions, etc. If I might suggest, I think' the Consul-General might be approached with a view to appointing a temporary Commercial Attache whose business it would be to re ceive samples from various British firms here—such samples to be in sextuplicate in the original packing—with the fullest details regarding prices, packing, weights, shapes and so on—with the object of sending them Home for distribution to the London, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Bradford Chambers of Commerce together ith a complete list of British firms We cannot all volunteer for active military service, but those of us who are left behind can, at any rate, volunteer for active com-service. The women are doing their share, so why should the men not do a little?
I am, ete.
Lert Benin. Shanghai, Oct, i6.
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