DRYBLOWER

Dryblower hears the first shots in a global trade war and reports that the first victim is a mining company

IT was a US Senator, Hiram Johnson, who is credited with coining the saying in 1918 that “truth is the first casualty of war” and if <i>Dryblower</i> is right it will be a US President who proves it, as shots ring out to mark the start a global trade war – with mining companies the first to be wounded.