THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 20, 1940
JAPAN WANTS TO BUY-IN THE
DUTCH EAST INDIES
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bury, Supreme Court
Tokyo, To-day. JAPAN IS ABOUT TO OPEN talks with the Netherlands East Indies,--talks which will radically differ from any earlier negotiations, in that Japan will this time insist on being allowed to buy more instead of trying to sell
more.
THIS UNPRECEDENTED POSITION AS A BARGAINER, WHICH THE "SAHI SHIMBUN” DESCRIBES AS "THE NEW TREND OF THE FUNDAMENTAL DIRECTION OF JAPAN'S PRESENT TRADE DIPLOMACY" 15 DUE TO THE FACT THAT JAPAN,. WHILE EN- JOYING AN UNUSUALLY FAVOURABLE. STANDING AS A SELLER IN THE ISLANDS FOUND IT VERY - DIFFICULT · RECENTLY TO PROCURE THERE CERTAIN 'IMPORTANT RAW MATERIALS SUCH AS OIL, RUBBER, SCRAP IRON AND TIN, ALL OF WHICH THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIAN GOVERNMENT HAD PUT AN EX- PORT LICENSING SYSTEM ON SOON AFTER OUTBREAK OF THE EUROPEAN HOSTILITIES.
It is even charged in Japan that the Dutch Indies enforced a treatment of preference for the European bellige- rents presumably the Allies, thus curtailing the amounts available for the Japanese. This is said to be the more serious in view of the unstable character of Japan's trade relations with the United States, heretofore its most important supplier of oil scrap iron.
and
HEAVY FINES
FOR IGNORING BLACK-OUT
Japan's export to the Netherlands Indies amounted in 1939 to Y137,800,-
TWO CHINESE WERE FINED $100 000 while Japan's imports from that BY MR. H. G. SHELDON, K.C, THIS country totalled Y71,629,000 resulting MORNING, WHEN SUMMONED FOR in an export excess of about Y65,000,- |FAILING TO SCREEN LIGHTS BE 000. Before the present internationalTWEEN THE SOUNDING OF THE situation arose, such an excess AIR RAID WARNING AND THE was considered highly satisfactory, and | SOUNDING OF "RAIDERS PAST" the Netherlands Indies was regarded SIGNAL. ON MARCH 5. as one of Japan's best markets.
SUGAR COATING
Leung Siu-choi, master. of the May Fay Tailoring shop at No. 44, Stanley The Foreign Office trade authorities Street, was first accused. A Chinese- are now drafting concrete proposals Sub-Inspector, who was on patrol in on which to negotiate with the Dutch. Stanley Street, said he saw the lights As one of the possible Japanese argu- of the accused's shop shining brightly ments. It is suggested that Japan in the street. The Inspector knocked Links its purchases of sugar, which at the door but no-one answered. the Netherlands Indies want to sell, Ng Ki, of No. 80, Ice House Street, with a more abundant supply of gutta-ground floor, was alleged to have left percha, scrap iron and oil. It is point- his lights on to play mah jongg. ed out that Japan is now. importing, A Police Reservist said that when Y16,177,000 worths of gutta-percha he cautioned the defendant, he ignor- against only Y132,000 of sugar, showed him..
ing that Japan could do much better Defendant said he had to leave the -in-helping-the-Indies to get rid of their lights on because his sister-in-law was
sugar surplus.
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Besides this "sugar-coating" - argu- The prosecution was conducted by SATURDAY ment, Japanese efforts to stress friend-Divisional Inspector Smith. ly relations in the political sphere, Warrants were issued for the arrest SUNDAY are equally pointed out as liable to of two other Chinese, Chan Kam- lead to a better trade understanding.chuen of No. 1, Cockrane
Gaimusho quarters. believe that the ground floor, and Sun Yuk-hon of No. Street, negotiations will take possibly six 43A, Wyndham Street, who failed to months until a new trade pact can be appear in Court this morning, when expected.--Havas.-
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Elsewhere the decline in Indian was a notable their civil rights if the Cham-feature following confirmation of the ber concurs in a bill passed news of a new Mysore tax on earn- by the Senate yesterday.
Prior to voting on this law, the Senate discussed at length the Com- munist and Hitlerite propaganda, ac- tivities, and the Home Minister, M. Albert Sarraut, pointed out the close Soviet-German co-operation in the propaganda field.
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