Rush to Beat Import Restrictions
' Received Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, March 12. Striving to beat the Malan Government 's order controliing imports to South Africa, British export firms have packed Sonthampton's docks with cars, machinery, bieyeles, ' wireless sets, whisky, to'baeco, cigarettes, clothing shoes and bathroom eqnipment. The order requires that goods permitted to enter South Africa must have left British factories by midnight today There are 500 railway wa,gons in doclj today awaiting unloading. Lorries were bound for Southampton from all :parts of Britain and stevedores .have been working overtime fonr nights weekly". The South African restrictions were imposed to reduee the country's adverse ttade balance.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 March 1949, Page 5
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