BRITAIN AND THE FREE STATE

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21363, 4 January 1935, Page 9

BRITAIN AND THE FREE STATE

Trade Agreement Reached COAL AND CATTLE BECIPR0 CAL INCREASE IN PURCHASES „<E !■=- "■■■' ■' — r ' 7 KI.E'-rEI = ibjbW >'■-'■ ■:>■■■•»'■> ~«) January :•', 11.40 p.m.) LONDO.W January 3. Th . political correspondent of J%m Telegraph" says sectt« Sations between Britfti iSthe Irish Free State faulted in an important f«deSement, the Free State "Steal b« coal from Britain TWO*® worth of sales a year. '•fr J. H- 1 nomas (Dominions SecTP'arv),' Mr Walter Kunciman (Prec^e4 of the Board of Trade). Mr \ftl«' Elliot (Minister for Agriculture), and Mr J. W. Dulanty (Free S-ate' High Commissioner m Loncjn) negotiated the agreement. The scheme roughly means that for'every pound sterling the Free State spends on coal, over ana above •:; present imports, Britain will fixed an equivalent amount on csttlc. The Free State is refraining from -enewing its present contracts with German and Polish coal exporters. U is expected that Britain will Like 150,000 head of cattle in excess iff the present quota allocation, and v-ese cattle will not be liable to the jpecial duty imposed in respect of t*e default in the land annuities. "The "Financial News" says the agreement will not be officially announced until the current negotiations with the Dominions about restrictions on beef exports are completed.