ANGRY AMERICANS.
HIGH PRICE OF ftUBBER. ** BRITAIN LAUGHING AT US." WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. Two members of the House of Eepresentatives, Messrs. Hull, and Tilson, in speeches to-day, charged Britain and Canada with trying to "gouge" America by means of rubber and wood pulp. A resolution was passad authorising a Congressional inquiry into the prices of these commodities and the conditions of their production. At the same time, the commission will ascertain why prices for nitrates, quinine, iodine, sisal and quicksilver are high. "The British Government is laughing loudly at us. They intend to collect 4.000,000,000 dollars (about £800,000,000) from as through high prices for rubber, and so cancel the war debt," said Mr. Hull. Mr. Tilson was even more markedly hostile to the British, He dealt chiefly 1 with Canada's proposal to refuse to export .any more wood pulp, and to so force [American paper ; manufacturers to rycct mills in Caoadii*,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19215, 2 January 1926, Page 10
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