ENGLISH SHIPS BOYCOTTED.
Paris, Oct. 19. The Temps, which has been publishing reports showing that English ships have been boycotted in Holland since the Bootwar be "an giving fae-similos of contracts for' J freight containing an anti-British claiisc. . It is receiving letters from prominent French traders showing that the same restriction has been in voguo here for eighteen months and is becoming more and more general. Many large contracts for African and American freight have only oeen signed after a clause barring English bottoms had been inserted. A case in point cited is that of a firm which has done enough trading in China to keep ten English cargo boats busy for Vy the i as t six years, but which now proffers slightly highor rates to a French company in order to take part in the boycott. Another instance cited is an intensely pro-Boer coal merchant, who broke the partnership because his partners found it to their interest to buy stock in England. He himself immediately opened an_ independent house, went to the United States and contracted for boO.OOO tons to be delivered at various French ports before Christmas.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 284, 10 December 1901, Page 3
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