TRADE WITH POLAND.
GERMANY’S NEW TREATY. BERLIN, Oct. 18. Immediately after the Balkans tour by Dr Funk (Minister of Economics) a supplementary trade agreement between Germany and Poland has been announced, under which Germany is granting credits of approximately £5,000,000 for the purchase from Germany of factory machinery during the next two and a half years. Credits will be liquidated over six to nine years by the export to Germany of additional grain, timber and agriculture. Most of Poland’s 1938 gram surplus has already been sold to Germany. The new agreement is additional to that which came into effect in September, under which there is an annual barter and exchange of goods valued at over £10,000,000. With the present agreement, 40 per cent of Poland s foreign trade will be with Germany. FRENCH PERTURBED. THE GERMAN DOMINATION. * PARIS, Oct. 18. French political and business circles are perturbed at the prospects of German economic domination in Southeast Europe, and see the . trade , drive as the forerunner of political dominaCommentators admit that France is not in a position to offer comparable economic advantages.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 276, 20 October 1938, Page 12
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