A Belgrade, Oct. 9.
'A boom was foreshadowed today in trade between Great Britain and Yugoslavia when Sir Ronald Campbell, British Minister here, called on the' Economics Minister, M. Ivan Andres, to announce that Britain was ready to supply Yugoslavia with raw materials and to buy up her food surplus.
Official quarters emphasized that above all things, this country wished to remain neutral economically as well as financially. Financial and industrial circles admitted they would much prefer economic ce-operation with Britain to that with Germany. London, they pointed out, could buy the same products as the Reich and would pay in currency instead of in kind, and, moreover, Britain could supply. Yugoslavia with such materials as cotton, coffee and wool, which the Reich itself lacks.
German-Yugoslav trade parleys were understood to be continuing here today. A. German delegation arrived here on September 28 and is still here—Havas.
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