ENEMY FIRMS STILL CARRYING ON

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2893, 4 October 1916, Page 5

ENEMY FIRMS STILL CARRYING ON

ANGRY PROTEST, IN ENGLAND. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. ; London, October 2. ■ Sir Charles Johnston, a former Lord Mayor, has drawn the attention of the Home Office to the fact that one Schumacher, an unnaturalised German, and his partner, Broekker, who is naturalised, are allowed to carry on a eilk m'er-. chants'' business in the city. Tho. Board of Trade declares that it las no'i power to wind up the business under the Trading with the Enemy Act. The.fact that an enemy firmls doing business under the protection of tho Board of Trade has raised'angry protests. The "Daily Mail" declares that there are many similar cases! 1 S ' i HATRED AND FREE TRADE BRITAIN'S POST-WAR POLICY. Australian-New Zealand Cablo Association. , London,. Octcber 2. Lord Beauchamp (Lord Warden of tho Cinque Ports), speaking at Manchester, 'said,the hatrod of Germany was being used to create ;Iti argument against free trade. It was inconceivable to him that Britain's policy after tho war should be based on hatred of men whose simple duty had been to carry out the orders of their superiors. „ FUEL FOR FOOD SUPPLIES SWISS DEAL WITH GERMANY. ("The Times.") London, October 2. "The Times' " correspondent at Lausanne states that a German-Swiss Convention has been signed, under which Germany is to supply 156,000 tons of coal, 81,000 tons coke, and 10,000 tons of briquettes to Switzerland in return for Swiss dairy produco and aluminium. j