Recent Gains by Germany Under the New Trade Treaty and her Aims An article in the Economist of June $, on "The Fight for Rumania's Trade" point out that the emissaries of the Reich have lost no time in trying to realize the provisions of the recent German-Rumania trade treaty.
Germany has obtained mining and oil-drilling concessions in the Bu-cavina, in Transylvania, the Dobruja, and the Rumanian plain. It is preparing to manufacture artificial textiles in the Danube Delta, to erect flour mills at Braila, to develop and reorganize communications, to build a power station on the Boga canal at Timiasoara, to direct the marketing of Rumanian produce, to penetrate into every branch of commerce.
Under the terms of the treaty Germany is awarded "free zones" within which her industrialists may manufacture what goods they please; and, since the treaty mentions no localities, the establishment of "free zones" wherever it would suit Germany's book is not ruled out of the possibilities,
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