GERMANY WILL TRADE ONLY BY BARTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 205, 29 August 1936, Page 9

GERMANY WILL TRADE ONLY BY BARTER.

EXPERT'S INQUIRY.

Would Double Australian

Wool Purchase.

VISITOR FOR NEW ZEALAND

United Press Association. —Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Herr Hillbrecht, German trade expert, who arrived in Sydney recently, is investigating trade relationship between Australia and Germany. He hopes to arrange a trade barter system. He will also undertake similar investigations in New Zealand.

Herr Hillbroclit said that "Germany needs your wool but can trade with Australia only 011 the barter system." He adds that Germany could take double the quantity of wool previously exported from Australia, but if the barter system was not acceptable Germany would have to go on with her experiments in

artificial wool products.

EMPIRE TRADE. "TWO-WAY TRAFFIC" IDEAL. British Official Wireless. (Received 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, August 28. The Dominions Secretary, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, to-day pressed a button in the Faraday Building, London, the radio-telephone terminal of the British Post OHice, causing an electric impulse to travel 3UOO miles across the Atlantic and to switch on the lights of 'the British section of the Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto. He then declared the exhibition open.

Speaking of inter-Imperial trade, which he said should be two-way traliic, Mr. Mac Donald stated that in recent weeks he and his colleagues had been taking stock, together with the Canadian Ministers in London, of the results of the Ottawa agreement. They had also considered various important questions relating to future trade between the two countries.

The progress of the discussions was being examined by the two Governments, said Mr. Mac Donald, and he hoped that the ultimate results would be fruitful to both peoples.

CHURCH'S APPEAL.

AID HITLER AGAINST "REDS." (Received 12 noon.) BERLIN, August 28. Catholic bishops sent Herr Hitler a copy of a pastoral letter which will be read in churches throughout Germany on Sunday appealing to allow the church to co-operate with the Government "in fighting the ever-increasing threat to the world of Bolshevism which shows its sinister hands in Spain, Russia and Mexico. Guns are not enough to fight this danger. A sound lead is needed in order to ensure victory."

WILL DICTATORS MEET?

HITLER AND MUSSOLINI. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 28. The "Daily Telegraph" Berlin correspondent learns that efforts are being made from Berlin to' persuade Signor Mussolini to visit Herr Hitler in Bavaria in the autumn. The German Ambassador to Rome has been instructed to urge the advantages of such a meeting of the dictators. It is pointed out that Signor Mussolini never returned Herr Hitler's visit to Rome in 1934, after which the Nazi "purge" and the murder of Dr. Dollfuss, Austrian Chancellor, deteriorated Italo-German relations.

ARRESTED AS SPY.

GERMAN WOMAN AVIATOR.

(Received 10 a.m.)

BERLIN, August 28.

The aviatrix, Fraulein Thea Rasche, is reported to have been arrested as a Russian spy. She complained to the police, who are seeking the originators of a story that had no foundation.