§ Mr. CHIOZZA MONEYasked the President of the Board of Trade if his attention has been directed to the fact that Sir Francis Oppenheimer's Consular Report from Frankfort of 1909 states that a German trader can send 5,000 kilos of rails from Frankfort to Constantinople for a through freight rate, including railway and steamship, of a little over 2s. per 100 kilos, 220 pounds; and if he can state how much a British trader would have to pay for a similar service?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. I will endeavour to obtain some information on the point referred to in the last part of the question and will communicate with my hon. Friend.
§ Mr. MYERIs it not part and parcel of the German system of assisting trade at the public expense? What would be the charge for goods of a similar weight carried for the same distance within the German Empire?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI could not answer that question off-hand.