the Governments of the United King-The Board of ni: announces that ndon, Feb. 17.
dom and France have agreed that effect should be given to the conclusion recently reached by the President of the Board of Trade, Sir Andrew Duncan, and the French Minister of Commerce, M. Gentin, with a view to promoting favourable development of Franco-British trade.
The understanding reached involves, as regards the mutual trade el the two countries, considerable relaxation of measures of prohibition and restriction, which each was obliged to impose at the outbreak of war.
The arrangements now agreed upon follow logical from the provisions of the financial agreement of December 4 last. Substantial progress has also been made in recent exchanges of views towards the realization of the same object in relation to other parts of the British and French Empires,
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