The Archive · 1940

British Insurance Co.'s Extend Business

London, Feb, {In the House of Commons yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sit John Simon, said the fullest arrangements had' been made to. enable British insurance companies to carry fon their overseas business without Impediment, and to meet claims by Allied, neutral or British claimants under' any policy, whether It be expressed in sterling or foreign cure Feney—Reuter. communication to the Shang hai Flour Merchants Gulld, the City Chamber of Commerce urged" that measures be Immediately devised to Tower the flour prices for the benefit of the city's poor, says a report to the "Sin Wan Pao." Flour has become the main diet of the poor, as a sub stitute for rice and other foodstuffs, The Poor cannot afford to buy lee, the communication pointed out,

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