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Show Import of Dyestuffs to England Is Banned LONDON, Sept 4. Legislation pro-hlhltlng pro-hlhltlng the Importation Of synthetic dyestuffs. exepting under license, will be enforced as o,ulckly as possible, according ac-cording to a statement made bv the president of the British chamber of commerce. The announcement was made at S re. ent meeting of the Color liters' association. It was also stated that It Is the dr finite opinion of the Flrltlsh government that synthetic color making mak-ing factories run by experts with a competent s:aff of chemists and equal to those of any other nation are essential essen-tial to national security and that the government had agreed to give financial finan-cial assistance In order to allow certain cer-tain schemes of research -work to he completed. It has developed that In December Inst the stocks of dyestuffs In Germany amounted to 22.000 tons of which, under un-der the reparation clauses of the peace treaty. Britain was entitled to received .'.30 ton?. Up to the present however, only half of thnt amount has been received. The American chamber of corn-fierce corn-fierce In London points out that much the same opinions as those held by dye manufacturers and users here are expressed ex-pressed In the Longworth bill. The report that, congress Is planning to put the American dye Industry on a firm basis bj m".ins of a ten-year embargo em-bargo has nroured much Interest In Great Britain. It Is said to show that lh America, as In Great Britain there in a marked determination to make the dy Industry Independent of foreign for-eign dyes. |