London, Mar. 23, The demand made by a Labour Member of Parliament that all valuables deposited by Austrian banks with English Banks, including all stocks of precious metals, should be confiscated, was rejected with considerable asperity by the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in the House of Commons yesterday.
Such deposits, be declared, were now, as heretofore, at the disposal of their rightful owners. The Gov-vernment had neither power nor desire to alter that fact in any way, nor had it any intention asking Parliament for special powers to take such action,—Trans-Ocean.
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