The replacing of German manufactures that come to China with British manufactures should now prove an easy task. At home, the first effort could be made with engineering There is the first place as regards into China; but tore is also reason to believe tha. if British merchants in China had only taken moiety of the trouble and care] taken by Germans, the total of British imports might certainly have been far greater than that of to-day. The Germans have scrupulously studied the wants of the Chinese, and in many instances even their idiosyncracies—while it is notorious that the British have left the market to take care of itself and that only the excellence of the article has preserved the market for Great Britain. There are, of course, certain trades like those in dyes and sugar that are useless from the point of view of Great Britain. But there are plenty of German materials which can very easily be replaced by British manufactures.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.