BRITAIN AND FRANCE

Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 9

BRITAIN AND FRANCE

COMMERCIAL RELATIONS ARRANGING A NEW TREATY (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CJ;rT RUGBY, May 9. (Received May 10, at noon.) Denunciation of the Anglo-French Conventions of Commerce and Navigation of 1826 and 1882, of which the French Government gave notice on February 11, will take effect on May 12. Negotiations for the conclusion of a new treaty have begun, it leantime, as a provisional modus vivendi, pending the conclusion of this treaty, it has been agreed that the 1882 convention shall be continued in force subject to a fortnight’s notice of the denunciation by cither side with the exception of articles relating to navigation, which will lapse on May 12, and on the understanding that neither country will invoke the provisions of the convention in the matter of quantitative restrictions on the importation of goods from one country into the other. As regards shipping questions, it is explained that both countries arc parties to the Maritime Ports Convention, signed at Geneva in 1923.