The Archive · 1939

Germany Gets Barter Pact with Argentine

Wheat and Wool for 64 Locomotives

Buens Aires, Mar. 28.

According to well-informed quarters here, the Argentine Government has signed a barter agreement with the Reich, providing for trade exchanges totalling Pesos 14,000,000.

Germany's exports to Argentina in this agreement are said to include 64 locomotives, while Argentina, in exchange, will despatch 100,000 tons of wheat, other grains, and wool, within of six months.—Havas, Soviet Ambassador Leaves Chungking for Moscow Chungking, Mar, 28.

Soviet circles here announce that the Soviet Ambassador in China, M.

Ivan Louganetz-Orelsky, accompanied y his wife, has left Chungking for Moscow "for a holiday.""—Reuter.

A MovEMENT is now afoot among the various public bodies in Hongkong urging that holders of the Chinese Government Liberty Bonds voluntarily destroy the bonds in their possession, says a Hongkong Chinese message to the "Shun Pao. The movement is being promoted, the report adds, as a means of voluntarily lightening the burdens of the Chinese Government, in order to show grim determination to support the Chinese Government in the present national resistance.

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