London, Feb. 16, Announcement of the' deopenliys of the Kiel Canal in Germany was viewed with concern in naval quarters here, where it is considered as further slop in the anti-British policy.
"The German ect had so far been tunable to face both the British and the Soviet fleets and intervene aetively both in the North and Baltic Seas and had to request. permission from Denmark to pass from one sea to the other. The Danes are able to prevent passage through the Straits by laying mines, 'Deepening of the Kiel Canal will give the German navy complete freedom of action both in the North Sea and the, Baltic' Sea, thereby affecting vital British and Soviet Britain Surveys Copper Stocks London, Feb, 18.
The British Government has started census of copper stocks, both raw and semifinished, in the hands of con. sumers. This census, it is understood the trade, will be revised every three months, but the totals will not be published, Total copper stocks in public ware: houses, published weekly, are Dractically tinehanged from a year ago this time but their composition has altered somewhat. Public warehouse stocks fre equal to Less than 2 months peace time requirements, Just how much' of a secret "war reserve" British. industrialists have accumulated is completely uncertain, the "Metal Bulletin" estimates United Kingdom 1938. "consumption"—whieh Would include manufacturers' private:
held stocks—at 280,000 tons com: bared with 304,000 tons in the lively copper year, 1937, Trade circles expect the Govern: ment to take censuses of the other Important base metals.—United! Press.
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