In the House of Commons on Thursday week Sir Henry
Dalziel asked that the terms of the agreement between the British Government and the Merchants' Guild of Copenhagen, and the Industrial Association of Denmark, should be published. According to the British version of the agreement, published In all the papers, the British Government, he said, had under- taken not to object to the export to belligerents of beer, leather, malt, cheese, tea, fresh and dried fruit, female clothing, clocks, and other articles. Was not this permission a violation of the Prime Minister's declaration last March that we meant to prevent commodities of any kind from entering or leaving Germany ? Sir Arthur Markham stated that Lord Haldane had recently announced that he was opposed to the policy of " starving Germany."
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