The Archive · 1925

THE FRANCO-GERMAN TRADE BREACH

Goods Hastening to Enter Ger-any Before Tariff Wall Is Again Raised Paris, Jan, 9.

In consequence of the lapse of Article 268 of the Versailles Treaty providing for the entry into Germany, duty free, of goods from Alsace-Lorraine, and the failure up to the present of the negotiations between France and Germany for the substitution of a commercial agreement, a steady stream vehicles, loaded with goods for Germany, has se: in along the routes leading to the Rhine, especially in the direction of Kohl.

The organization of a special police service has been necessitated in order to avoid a traffic block.

The exported goods include foodstuffs, textiles and leather—Reuter. Berlin, Jan. 9.

Herr Trendelenburg, Chief of the Germsn Commercial Delegation at

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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