Stock prices advanced early in the session but reacted later from the highs. However, most of the list rea part of the early gins. Favourable market factors induced indications that the short sale rule might Lo modify-d, rising car loadings, good sales gains by chain-store units, the statement: by Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, that the Treasury staff des: res to make the recovery lasting, Negotiations London, Mar. 8.
The British Minister for Mines, Mr. H. F. Crookshank, answering question in the House of Commons yesterday on the Anglo-German coal negotiations, declared that it would be incorrect to speak at this stage of a concrete agreement. It was rather a matter of the clarification of intentions between the British and German coal trades, hence merely a first step towards international agreements. Mr. Crookshank, however, stated emphatically that during these negotiations progress had been achieved.—Trans-Ocean.
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