GERMANY AND UNITED STATES.
TARIFF WAR POSSIBLE. Press Association—By Tel.—Copvright. Received 10.15 p.m., Oct. 27th. LONDON, Oct. 27. Router's Berlin correspondent itates that Mr Knox, American Secretarv of State, has intimated that lie is bound to resist the wrong inflicted ou Americans by the German retroactive tax r n potash. Contracts had been made in good faitli with German exporters. Mr Davis, Special Commissioner, lias informed the German Government that unless the demands are satisfied the provision in the American tariff law imposing an extra 25 per cent, on imports from nations discriminating against the. United States will probably be applied to German exports. Tims a trade war is in prospect which will almost certainly react on the nolit;ca« friendship that has been cultivated between Berlin and "Washington since 1907. s
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14334, 28 October 1910, Page 5
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