A REPRISAL
AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN
FOB FINANCIAL HARDSHIP.
(UNITED PSKSI ASSOCIATION—COPISIfIHT.)
(REUTER'B TELEGRAM.)
BOSTON, 29th December.
A Bill Seeking a "reprisal" agaiiwt Britain "for fiiiaiicial hardships" imposed through increased rubber prices has been filed in the Senate of tho State of Massachusetts by Senator Hennessey. The Bill would direct thut a list of British companies doing business in Massachusetts be made, to ascertain the total amount paid in premiums by these companies during the last five years, "in order to enable the people of the Commonwealth to take such action as they may deem effective by way of reprisal."
Senator Hennessey asserted that 700 million dollars a year were takon from the United States in exce.?s prices by the British rubber "monopoly,l* and that Press reports indicate! that British interests had decided to support the similar Brazilian coffee ■monopoly.,
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 6
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139A REPRISAL Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 6
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