TRADE IMPROVES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 137, 22 March 1935, Page 5

TRADE IMPROVES.

GERMANY’S ADVERSE BALANCE.

BELOW THAT FOR JANUARY.

(United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) BERLIN, March 21.

Germany’s adverse trade balance in February was about £5',000,000, compared with about £9,000,000 in January. The improvement was mainly due to a vigorous cut in imports.

NEW CHALLENGE TO WORLD.

BRITISH LABOUR’S VIEWPOINT.

(Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, March. 21

In a debate in the House of Commons the Leader of the Opposition (Mi George Lansbury) said that Germany had flung down a new challenge to the world, demanding not . only equal rights and privileges with other nations, but also the right to tear up tho Treaty of Versailles and embark on a policy of armaments which was bound to lead to a race in armaments and ultimately nlunge us into war and destroy civilisation. The Government, the House and everyone must recognise the imperative duty of making the greatest effort to save civilisation (Cheers.) Sir J. Simon should go to Berlin with a new mandate. “I, want our country to take the lead in telling the world that the British Empire is willing to lay on the altar of disarmament the whole business of aerial warfare,” said Mr Lansbury.; that with other nations, “we are willing to abandon it everywhere in all circumstances for good.”