§ 25. Major-General Sir ALFRED KNOXasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give a list of the materials of war despatched from Great Britain to Soviet Russia from June, 1929, to December, 1930?
§ Mr. W. GRAHAMI will, with the hon. and gallant Member's permission, circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT a statement showing the details as recorded. 190 standard of Russian timber imported into this country, but the average declared values per load of sawn soft timber imported from Russia in 1928, 1929, and 1930, were £4 14s. 2d., £4 12s. 3d., and £4 4s. 9d., respectively, while in December, 1930, the average declared value was £4 8s. 9d. According to particulars published in the "Builder" the wholesale price per standard of timber described as "good building deal, 3 by 9 inches," was £24 from the beginning of 1928 to 14th November, 1930, when the price fell to £22, at which figure it has remained up to the present time. No information is available as to the retail price of timber.
§ 40. Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLANDasked the President of the Board of Trade the quantities of timber imported into this country from Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia for each of the years 1928, 1929, and 1930?
§ Mr. GRAHAMAs the answer contains a number of figures I will circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the answer:
§ Sir A. KNOXDoes this include tanks?
§ Mr. GRAHAMYes. They amount to only £44,000, but tanks are included under the last heading, namely, military and naval ordnance stores.
§ Captain GUNSTONWill it be possible to find out the war material imported into Russia from other countries?
§ Mr. GRAHAMI am afraid I could not furnish details. It is as much as I can do to answer for this country.
§ Captain PETER MACDONALDIs it not a fact that cash payments were made for these war materials?
| THE FOLLOWING TABLE shows the total quantity and declared value of the exports of arms ammunition and military and naval stores of domestic manufacture from Great Britain and Northern Ireland registered during the period from June, 1929, to December, 1930, both inclusive, as consigned to the Soviet Union (Russia). | |||
| Description. | Unit of Quantity. | Quantity. | Declared Value. |
| Ammunition: | £ | ||
| Sporting Ammunition: | |||
| Loaded Cartridges | No. | 500 | 3 |
| Cwt. | — | ||
| Other, including shot, but excluding empty cartridge cases. | Cwt. | 80 | 197 |
| Blasting Accessories (including detonators, cables, etc.). | Cwt. | — | 46 |
| High Explosives, other than blasting powder, collodion cotton, and trinitrotoluol: | |||
| Gelatinous | Cwt. | 268 | 1,800 |
| Rockets and other pyrotechnic products | — | (a) | 89 |
| Explosives and Ammunition, not elsewhere specified in the Export List. | — | (a) | 330 |
| Arms: | |||
| Ordnance: | |||
| Automatic machine and quick firing guns and parts thereof. | No. | 1 | 623 |
| Cwt. | 1 | ||
| Gun mountings and carriages and parts thereof | No. | 5 | 444 |
| Cwt. | 1 | ||
| Small Arms: | |||
| Sporting Guns | No. | 2 | 222 |
| Cwt. | — | ||
| Military, Naval and Ordnance Stores and appliances, not elsewhere specified in the Export List. | — | (a) | 40,251 |
| Total | — | — | 44,005 |
| (a) Recorded by value only. |