THE COTTON PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2526, 29 July 1915, Page 6

THE COTTON PROBLEM

AGITATION IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 27. In tlie House of Commons, Major Hunt urged that cotton be declared contraband. He said the Government ought to cease fighting with the gloves on, and to prevent cotton reaching Germany for the manufacture of munitions. Lord Robert Cecil -said it was an incredibly offensivo observation to say that the Government ivas permitting and encouraging Germany to get ammunition. It was an essential part of the Government's policy to prevent cotton reaching Germany. A declaration of contraband enabled confiscation when the goods were destined for an enemy, but then they would not be entitled to stop'cargoes under the conditions now operating. SEVENTY THOUSAND BALES HELD • UP. Copenhagen, July 27. Official: Seventy thousand bales of cotton destined for Sweden have been stopped in England. Fifty-five thousand bales were allowed to procced on Sweden agreeing not to re-export them. WHAT GERMANY RECEIVED LAST YEAR. London, July 28. A Gazette states that data collected frqm authoritative sources shows that about nine hundred thousand bales of cotton entered Germany through neutral sources from 1914 to 1915.