TARIFF TROUBLES.
CANADA AND AMERICA.
TRADE WAR IMMINENT,
(Press Associate]!.—By Telegraph",-'
Copyright). Recieved March IG, 9.30 p.m. Ottawa, Last Night. While shrewd observers at Washington are still hopeful that President Taft will yield to the advioe of the Commissioners seut to Canada, authorities at Ottawa apprehend that a trade war with Amerioa is imminent. It is stated that it' America imposed the maximum tariff, Canada will reply with a 'surtax of 381-8 per cent, and prohibit the export of pulpwood and wood pulp.
(A oable yesterday stated that President Taft, Mr Knox, Mr Pepper, three members of the Tariff Board, and Senators Aldrioh and Crane are conferring with reference to the tariff negotiations. President Taft remarked that there was little chance of reaching an agreement with Cauada),
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 965, 17 March 1910, Page 5
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