§ 17. Sir WALTER de FRECEasked the President of the Board of Trade if he has any information as to the price and delivery terms at which an order has been secured by Ruhr mines, in competition with England, for 400,000 tons of Rhenish Westphalian coal for Italy; whether previous orders have been placed in England; and, if so, what was the date of the last contract?
§ The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)I have seen a reference in the Press to this contract, but I have no official information of its terms or of previous contracts.