Reprisals against the discriminations imposed by Germany on British and American shipping were forecast today by the London Financial Times which learned that British shipping interests have suggested that British ports be closed to German ships.
However the execution of such reprisals is unlikely in the near future in view of the fact that Parliament is not in session now. It is unlikely that reprisals will include the abrogation of the treaty for the export of British coal to Germany.
Although the official German declaration on the shipping discrimination stated that they were due to currency restrictions, the Financial Times emphasized that the true German motive was an attempt to regain some of the shipping lost to the Germans through the world wide Jewish boycott. The discriminations are also intended to force German Jews to travel on German ships which they allegedly avoid.
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