BRITISH TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 64, 13 September 1932, Page 7

BRITISH TRADE

BIG DROP IN IMPORTS

SMALL IN EXPORTS

i ".(Received 13th September, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 12th September. British trade returns for August, as compared with August, 1931, show that imports decreased by £11,968,000, exports by £-585,000, and re-exports by £358,000. ■ The principal decreases were:— Imports.—Meat, £640,000; live animals for food, £1,115,000; other food and^ drink, £1,947,000; wood and timber, £841,000; iron and steel and manufactures thereof, £859,000; woollen yarns and manufactures, £921,000; apparel, £1,227,000. Exports.—Vehicles, £772,000. The increases were:— Imports.—Cotton, £632,000; oils and fats, £709,000. Exports.—Cotton yarns and manufactures, £286,000; chemicals, £ 316,000."

a message to Asuncion and La Paz calling for arbitration; it lined up Britain, France, and Germany behind its efforts, and it prepared' to have the Council meet and invoke the provisions of the covenant for the prevention of war.

But Washington and the most powerful nations in America moved even more swiftly. Before the League could get into action there had been a meeting in Washington of all the American nations—except Bolivia and Paraguay —and they had taken over the Chaco quarrel and served notice that they would apply the new "American- doctrine that no recognition would be given to the acquisition of territory by force. Since then the League has had to retire from the field.