SIBERIAN BUTTER

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 237, 8 May 1933, Page 6

SIBERIAN BUTTER

Cargo Readies London SHIPPED BEFORE EMBARGO Press Association. —Copyright. London, May 6. Notwithstanding the embargo on Russian imports 225 tons of Siberian butter is being discharged at Hays wharf. Apparently this is permitted because it was shipped before the embargo was imposed. The Daily Express says this butter will be thrown on a market already glutted with Danish, Dutch, Swedish and South American butter and will be quoted in the London provisions exchange at 62s a cwt. Empire butter sold yesterday at 70s to 745. One ship brought 72,000 head of poultry from Russia, principally imports of the co-operative societies, whose secretary says the goods were all paid for before the embargo was imposed. The Daily Telegraph draws attention to the extent of Empire cargoes carried in foreign ships. It mentions a list of 66 voyages in 1932 by foreign-flag tonnage from Dominion ports to the United Kingdom. Of these 43 were from Australia, eleven from South Africa, eight from Canada and the balance from the West Indies. This represents only a small portion of the traffic, as shippers who charter foreign vessels are not anxious to advertise the fact. “Freight charges going thus into foreign pockets must represent a large sum,” says the paper. “The remedy is the dosing of the intra-Empire freight and passenger mai'ket to all nations which exclude our ships from their coastwise trade.”