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Show MAY SUPPLY WOOL FOR FACTORIES IX GERMANY (By International News Service.) LONDON, May 21 British business men arc behind a schemo to furnish supplies of wool, jute and leather so as to start factories in Central Europe. Eur-ope. .Tjho Department of Overseas Trade o. th BparcJ of Trade has O. K.'d the plan, but the British Treasury Treas-ury opposes it. Other business men say only manufactured articles should be exported from England Those who would1 export raw materials ma-terials do not desire to do so until the Government is prepared to underwrite un-derwrite any losses that might occur. oc-cur. Now another scheme is on foot for extension of credits to certain European Euro-pean factories for purchase of raw materials, or for putting out-subletting manufacturing work by British Brit-ish manufacturers to Central European Euro-pean factories. Thus could they take advantage of the depreciated exchange ex-change rates and get cheap labor. Lord Faringdon, among others, has been pushing the campaign, but exports ex-ports say that only when tho British Government "takes tho risk" by guaranteolng payments can this enterprise en-terprise bo carried out. |