QUESTIONS IN COMMONS
PROPOSED ABOLITION OF DEPARTMENTS WAR DEBTS AND REPARATIONS By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyriffht. LONDON, Monday. In the House of Commons, the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, stated that the decision would be announced in the present session regarding the proposed abolition of the Departments of Overseas Trade and Mines and the Ministry of Transport, Lord Bledisloe, Parliamentary Secretary of Agriculture, told a questioner that the application for the Order-in-Council requiring the marking of imported oats would be inquired, into by a committee befora the end of the year. Mr. A. M. Samuel, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, informed a questioner that Britain’s total receipts to November 12 from German reparations, including Belgian war debts, was £45,000,000. Receipts of war debts from Italy were £8,000,000, from France £7,000,000, from other countries £500,000. The total reparation and war debt receipts was £60,000,000. Britain’s payments of war debts to the United States were £194,000,000. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Austen Chamberlain, told an inquirer that the question of renewal of the Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty of 1908, expiring in 1925, was at present th» subject of discussion with the Dominions.—A. and N.Z.-Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 203, 16 November 1927, Page 11
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