BUMPING OUT THE BRITISH.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12867, 24 May 1905, Page 4

BUMPING OUT THE BRITISH.

London, May 23>-<ln -fine ' Hotase of Lords, Lotfd Mhi^kerry co!m;'plai!n^d that the Philippines, Camary anld Marshall Islanfds are closdd against British shipping/ also that ißritish ships are not allowdd to participate in the. coasting; trade of Belgijukn, Framce, Russia, Italy, Portugal, Spam, Bratzil, arid the Unitdd States. Land La'nydowne, Minister for Foreign Affairs, replied that it was extremely unfair that British coasting, tralde should be open to foreigners who refuse to reciprocate. ," "If we preserVo our coasting trade exclusively to ourselves," he SEtvd, "the remddy) "may prove disacjvantag-edus. We s'houM lose our foreign re-shipment tralde."

"With reference to the Marshall Tslands, he stated that Germany freely recognised that the convention of 1896 entitled British ami German shipping ■ an tJie Pacific to a'bsohite ecfuality of treatment.