Show THE THUNDERER I Replies to the Empire Trade Leagues Memorial LONDON March 10The Times In replying to the Empire Trade leagues memorial in favor of denouncing the clause in the commercial treaties with Germany and Belgium which prevents the British colonies from levying a lighter duty on British than on foreign goods goodsLrd Salisbury ha written to Colonel Colo-nel Howard Vincent that he Is In thorough thor-ough accord with M Chamberlain on the Importance of securing the trade of the colonies for British producers While England would never again Wie agree to such inconvenient stipulations he says he is not prepared to give notice of the termination of these otherwise valuable treaties until a definite scheme is produced offering such probabilities of an Increased trade within the empire as to fully compensate for the risk involved The council of the league has decided de-cided to submit Lord Salisburys letter to the colonial governments with a view to securing definite proposals |