FRANCE'S BOLD STEP.
OPENS ECONOMIC OFFENSIVE
POST-WAR BOYCOTT OF GBERMANY
.'Australian and! N.Z. cable Association.) (Received April 27, 8.45 a.m.) . PARIS, April 26. •ine.upvernm.ant have taken a decisive move regarding the post-war economic offensive. Henceforth. France denounces all ''most favored , nation" commercial treaties, also fifty-two conventions regarding commerce, navigation, and customs. .
France's bold step iei' believed to be taken incomplete agreement with the Allies. It leaves her free for whatever new commercial, maritime, and customs status she may intend to adopt. The denunciations include . trade treaties with neutrals, m order to pave the way for the altered post-war situation. This is the first step towards an economic alliance among the Alies, which the Central Powers greatly dread.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14590, 27 April 1918, Page 3
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