BRITISH OBJECTION

Grey River Argus, 16 March 1932, Page 5

BRITISH OBJECTION

TO GERMAN RESTRICTIONS. ON COAL IMPORTS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received March 15 at 7 p.m.) RUGBY, Alarch 14. In the House of Commons Rt. Hon. W. C. Runciman (President of the Board of Trade), said that he had received from the German Government a reply to most of the questions that b.ad been put them regarding restriction of British coal imports into Germany. The reply made it clear that the action taken by Germany was not ' consistent with obligations under the Anglo-German commercial treaty of 1924, being discriminatory against Britain. Instructions, he said, had accordingly been given to the British Ambassador to make the strongest representations to the German Government. and this had been done. The German Government were considering these representations at once and he proposed to wait for a reply before forming his view as to what further action might be necessary. BRITISH MONEYLENDERS’ CASH. GERMAN BANK’S ACTION QUESTIONED. RUGBY, Alarch 14. The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, was asked by a member in the House of Commons why the German Government haj permitted the detention by the Dresdner Bank at Berlin of a remittance by the City of Budapest in transit to England for service of Budapest obligations to British subjects. Sir John Simon stated that th® British Ambassador at Berlin was inquiring urgently into the circumstances and had been requested to take any action likely to secure an early release of those funds.