Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 40, 22 January 1916, Page 6

Great Britain

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY BILL {United Pres* Amooiation.] (Received 1.55 p.m.) London, January 21. In the House of Commons, Mr Cave, in moving the second reading of the Trading with the Enemy Bill, said that many enemy businesses were still being carried on in Britain, and accumulating profits which would benefit the enemy after the war. As an example, two enemy subjects forming a company could own ships and have all the advantages of British traders and accumulate profits during the war. The Board of Trade have power to terminate and wind-up enemy businesses. They have no desire to confiscate enemy property, but British property was treated in a high-handed hmnnei by Germany, and it was desirable to hold enemy property in Britain until we" know how the British would be treated and compensation claimed, therefore, if necessary.