EMPIRE FREE TRADE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20334, 5 September 1931, Page 15

EMPIRE FREE TRADE.

LORD BEAVERBROOK'S APPEAL. (Received September 4th, 9-15 p.m.) LONDON, September 4. Lord Beaverbrook, in a manifesto in the "Daily Express," issued on his return from Canada, says the duty confronting the nation is not merely one of balancing the Budget and reducing expenditure. "Increasing taxation won't satisfy %he industrialists or give an opportunity to agriculturists or hope to the workless or remove the anxieties of the financial refugees who send money abroad," he says"Confidence must be restored at home. "This can best be done by a policy of Empire free trade, and I appeal to the Liberals in the Government not to be prejudiced by obstinate Cobdenism against the erection of a tariif wall around the Empire. It will mean the greatest area of free trade you can attain in this wicked world of tariffs. Therefore, give up all this truck with Europe and turn your minds to the health of the Empire." , GIFTS TO THE STATE. TREASURE SENT TO DOWNING STREET. (Received September 4th, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON. September S. The mail bag at No. 10 Downing Street daily resembles a treasury chest. Earlier gifts to the nation, including jewellery, trinkets, and gold watches, were supplemented to-dav by a cheque for £IOOO from a Doncaster toffee maker, and several cancelled war savings certificates and old age pension vouchers. One elderly lady sent to Mr Philip Snowden £l7 worth of cancelled vouchers.