GERMAN POLICY.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20497, 16 March 1932, Page 11

GERMAN POLICY.

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BRITAIN. RESTRICTION OF COAL IMPORTS. (BRITISH OETICIAL WIRELESS.) (Received March 15th, 5.5 p.m.) ' RUGBY, March 14. In the House of Commons the President of the Board of Trade,. Mr Walter Runciman, said he had received the German Government's reply to most of the questions put to it regarding the restriction of British coal imports. The reply made it clear that the action taken by Germany was inconsistent with Germany's obligations under the Anglo-German Commercial Treaty of 1924, being discriminatory against Great Britain. Instructions had accordingly been given to the British Ambassador, Sir Horace Rmhbold, to make the strongest representations to the German Government, and this was done. Thu German Government was considering these representations at once, and he proposed to wait for a reply before forming any view as to what further action might be necessary.

Asked by a member why the German Government permitted detention by the Dresdner Bank of Berlin of a remittance bv the city of Budapest in transit to England for service in respect of Budapest's obligations to British subjects, Sir John Simon (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) said the British Ambassador at Berlin was enquiring urgently into the circumstances and he had been requested to take any action likely to secure an early release of those funds.