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SECTION VIII. 



EXPAND THROUGHOUT LATIN 

 AMERICA. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



After the War, which Country will Dominate 

 the Commercial World in South America ? 



Tropical Life, February, 191 6. 



Discussing the methods of the German banks in Chile, 

 the Bulletin of the French Chamber of Commeyce at Santiago, 

 Chile, tells us that, although the War has naturally 

 hindered the operations of the German banks in that 

 Republic, their excellent organization enables them to 

 find an important market in North America, and the 

 United States are, at present, making great efforts to 

 promote their commerce in South America, and as they 

 do not possess banks of their own there, they are working 

 with the German banks, all of which have branches in 

 New York. 



Such tactics on the part of Germany are, of course, not 

 confined to Chile, and we would claim they are being 

 carried on still more vigorously in Brazil. This is why we 

 were so anxious to bring the suggestions included in our 

 book on " The Rubber Industry of the Amazon " before 

 the authorities, so that they can either adopt them or, 

 better still, cast them aside as being less suitable than 

 other plans which shall be put in force without loss of 

 time. Otherwise, do what we like to Germany in Europe, 

 Germany in South America will flourish and prosper in 

 the future even more than it has done in the past, and so 

 undo the good we are striving so strenuously to achieve 

 over here. 



The intelligence departments of the South American 

 (German) houses, as of the German banks in Chile, are 

 very well organized and render great service to German 



