IN GERMANY.
BRITISH TRADE SUFFERS.
(BX CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION COiTTaIGHT.) (Exinxn's 'ixixQ&ias.)
(Received February Ist, 12.10 a.m.) BERLIN, January 20.
The unemployed' receiving relief in 'the unoccupied territories has risen to 1,500,000. It is semi-ofiicially estimated that there are from four to five millions of -unemployed or "shorttimers" in Germany. At a meeting of the British Chamber of Commerce in Cologne, the chairman stated that the past' year had been disastrous to British traders in the occupied territories except for forward engagements. The severe license restrictions and the German Government's foreign exchange prohibitions rendered the import of British goods almost, impossible. The refusal of Eb© German Government to reimburse the British 26 per cent, reparations duty had been an especially severe blow. It had become imposailjle to place future or^Les^
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17986, 1 February 1924, Page 9
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