§ Mr. Dayasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can give particulars of any information as to the orders for the number of ships that have been 1910W placed in Germany for the previous two years, as a means of withdrawing credit balances from that country?
§ Mr. StanleyNo, Sir, but it is reported that the German authorities have for some time been permitting transactions of the kind only in very exceptional cases.