Feb, 7.
Gnat interest attaches to the news of the me ing recently held in London to discuss questions of trade employment after war. The resolution then passed, we are told, recommended the establisltment of a Ministry of Com-improvement of com-between the Empire und its Allies: and the prevention of Germany's again acquiring undue influence upon British trade and employment. Further reports will he cleome, especially as regards the last of these three _recommendatioris. By what means is Germany to be prevented from acquiting that undue influence upon British trade which, with only one period of intermission due to the stalwart action of Queen Elizabeth, she has exerted for some seven centuries?, Above all, who took part in the. Guildhall" meeting? Was it as national in character a8 the urgency of the problem demands?.Or was it. merely sectional, with no. speakers but
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