British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . tio, or, instead of maintaining the Britain would have lost her predominant positionmany years ago. Nevertheless, the general advance ofthe Germans in exports and the control of industrial en-terprise has continued far in excess of our own. Viewedin this light, our trade advance in South America losesmuch of its glamour. It appears only too clearly as a lag-ging behind, which, if the existing trend be continued forlong enough, must
British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . tio, or, instead of maintaining the Britain would have lost her predominant positionmany years ago. Nevertheless, the general advance ofthe Germans in exports and the control of industrial en-terprise has continued far in excess of our own. Viewedin this light, our trade advance in South America losesmuch of its glamour. It appears only too clearly as a lag-ging behind, which, if the existing trend be continued forlong enough, must end in collapse; for who now can doubtthat the ultimate aim of the German commercial policy inSouth America has been, not division, but the annihilationof the non-Teutonic! Moreover, the actual process must be far more rapidthan any promised by mere statistics; for there comes astage in commercial war when strategic advantages havea cumulative effect. Then the resistance is apt to crum-ble like the atoms of an undermined sand-castle when thewaters have ceased to nibble, and begin to devour! It is possible, apart from the circumstances of the war,. BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION IN SOUTH AMERICA
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