BRITISH COAL
OBJECTION TO RESTRICTION. ATTITUDE OF GERMANY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 7.4. In the House of Commons, Rtf Hon, W. O. Runcimnn (President of the Board of Trade), said that ho had received from the German Government a reply to most of the questions that had been put them regarding restriction of British coal imports into Germany. The reply made it clear that the action taken by Germany was not consistent with obligations under the Anglo-German commercial treaty of 1924, being discriminatory against Britain. Instructions, he said, had accordingly been given to the British Ambassador to make the strongest representations to the German Government, and this had been clone. The German Government were considering these representations at once, and he proposed to wait for a reply before forming his view as to what further action might be necessary, BANK ACTION QUESTIONED. RUGBY, March 14. The Foreign Secretary, Sir .John Simon, ivas asked by a member in the House of Commons why the German Government had permitted the detention bv the Dresdner Bank of Berlin of a remittance by the City of Budapest in transit to England for service of Budapest obligations to British subjects. Sir John Simon stated that the British Ambassador at Berlin was inquiring urgently into the circumstances and had been requested to take any action likely to secure an early release of tho(se funds.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1932, Page 5
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