The pressure of the new economic conditions imposed upos Germany by the results of the Great War, and by the difficulties arising out of the payment of reparations, is giving a new direction to German enterprise, ae cording to a London paper. In pre-war days the main interests of Germany lay in the West. Many of the Western markets are now more or Jess closed to her, and reports are accumulating of the conception of schemes for the extension of the commercial! interests of Germany in Russia, China, and other Eastern markets.
Details of an exceptionally interesting development in the Far East have recently been supplied to the Overseas Trade Department of*the Foreign Office and Board of Trade from a_ trustworthy source. In this report it is stated that there is every indication that the groups controlled by Messrs. Hugo Stinnes and the Siemen Company are making headway in China, and are at present using every endeavour to get control of coal, iron, and oil in certain localities.
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