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Show ORDER LIQUIDATION OF BRITISH FIRMS DEALING IN GERMANY BERT, IN". Aug. l.'l? midnight, via London. Lon-don. The Bundesrat has adopted a decree de-cree .authorizing tiie chancellor to liquidate liqui-date British firms operating in Germany. A semi-official note, published in connection con-nection with the dprree, says the measure is retaliatory. The decree closely follows fol-lows tiie lines of the English law of January, Janu-ary, 1916, for the compulsory liquidation of 1 he property of all lirfns of enemy countries, out with one substantial difference differ-ence that liquidation Is optional with the chancellor. The note alleges that this difference is due to the fact that Germany economically is i-o strong that she is able to meet the free competition of foreign concerns within Germanv, whereas English business men are a'de to devise no better method of restoring their lost position than the de-s de-s I ruction by forcible measures of values created by peaceful German industry. "This kind of commercial envy does not exist In Germany." the note adds |