Excerpt from Brassey's Naval Annual, 1915 When the present war was declared and the call to arms was being made through the length and breadth Of the land, the present writer attended many meetings in the part of the country in which he resides. It was endeavoured to explain why we had been forced reluctantly to go to war. The conflict has not been the outcome of commercial rivalry. The trade Of Great Britain and Germany has been advancing in recent years by leaps and bounds. We have run a neck-aud-neck race. Competition has not been a disadvantage to either country. Both have prospered. Next to India, Germany has been our best customer. We have been willing buyers, not only Of food and raw materials, but of those manufactures in which Germany excels. In many branches the two countries have co-operated in the production of goods in important lines of trade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.