WILL NATIONS FIGHT
FOR MARKETS?
PESSIMISTS. SEE CONFLICT AS SURE:
RESULT OF RIVALRY
By JOHN MORRIS
Tokyo.
"The opinion is growing among some foreign observers in the Far East that Japanese competition with the Industrial nations
This does not appear: of the West eventually will lead to war. to be the opinion of the majority of foreign residents, diplomats and newspaper correspondents here, but there is undeniably a growing feeling of uneasiness, if not of actual alarm, at the situation which is developing,
No one envisages any foreign prices.
"Japan," continued the possi navy being ordered to bombard Yokohama because Japanese goods mistic prophets, has a large and are crowding foreign competitors growing population of factors out of some lucrative markets, workers whose modes of living are 110r is Japan expected to begin as economical as the manufactur hostilities by sending h her factory's ing methods of their employers." salesmen abroad in Japanese des- troyers or bombing planes. The fasues would be obscured thorough-
LIVING COSTS
CHINA IMPORT DUTY,
PROTECTION OF NATIVE", GOODS THE OBJECT,
Nanking, Apr. 14.
It is authoritatively intimated that the Ministry of Financs, Is prepared to promulgato a revised import tarif early in Juhe, which is intended to produce the effect of adequately, protecting home indus try and agriculture,
The detailed items of the TO- vised tariff are being closely studi« ed by a committee jointly formed by the Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs, which has to follow the following lines:
to be applied to those imports, (1) Maximum Customs rates which compete against congenit Products in China;
(2) Imported raw materials to be subjected to the lowest possible Customa treatment or oven exemp-
It is a fact that living costs fntion of Customs; and
ly by pretexts dressed up as vital Japan are decidedly below those of
But the Aoldiers isBUCK, sailors killed in baltic, and
have been reduced and the Asiatic manufacturer's present advantage
Lord Lytton of England baing gitan a warm handsbaka by Ethel Barrymore famous stage star, during the luncheon tendered in honour of Lord and Lady Lytton by the League for Political Educa
tion ki Naw York, -
Y.M.C.A. VISITORS
TO TOUR CENTRAL' AND NORTH CHINA
Canton, Apr. 14.
the erection of the Canton AB- sociation buildings, was given by residents of Montreal more than twenty years ago.
From Jungkeng the party will all for Shanghai and then the Yanglee cities. They are expected After a brief visit to Cantonat lankow towards the latter part
of
tian statesman" there. A number
(3) the existing Customs rates and many of the countries which com on imported luxury goods to be in- thepote with Japan in world markets, civilian populations which would be it is a fact that many Occidentalereased a round-Central News, terrorised, maimed or obliterated workmen apond an uncasential would be equally dead, regardless comforts and recreation each week participation in business is the rule of the slogans expressing the war more than the living expenses of rather than the exception in this
lms of the opposing aides.
the entire family of an Asiatic
country. It a more than likely UNPLEASANT ALTERNATIVES Workman who may be performing that Gecidentals of all classes in a comparable taak. The observers the years immediately ahead will
a war for business This correspondent las discussed who predict the dangers of the situation with point out that tariff, barriers and spend less lavishly than in the past, and wages generally may be lower. some of the most experienced import restrictions are inadequate If this proves to be the case, and students of international commerce to correct the inequalities in com and politics, and among them, are moreinl competition resulting from standards of living in the Orient during which they inspected, the of April when they will meet Dr. some convinced that a "business these differences in living stan-are raised perceptibly, the great Y.M.C.A. activities here, and were John R. Mott, the world's Chris- difference between Eastern and war la inevitable. The pessimists dards.
A more reassuring viow is taken Western standards, of living will speskers at various educational and of important Y.M.C.A. conferences i feel that Japan to-day, is assuming a position in the commercial field by another school of thought on
social organisations, a group States and Canada are leaving for During their visit here the group comparable in many ways to that the same subject. There is the
X.M.C.A. leaders from the United will be held in Central China. Hongkong to-day en route to Cen-received a warm reception from which Germany occupied in the last possibility that Japanese workmen
A special regional conference of tral and North China. In the the local Chinese officials and few years preceding the World will refuse to continue indefinite- War. If such a drastic measurely working for the wages they the Institute of Pacific Relations party are Mr. Francis Harmon, a public organisations. In Hankow
un-ls to be opened here soon, to spend former. a receive today. It la not fantastic na
newspaper editor from the party will be the guests of the counter-attack against a purely reasonable to suppose that the week mainly in a discussion of Ilattisburg, Mississippi, who for local Committees of Management co-national Rving standards. If the the last four years has been the of the Chinese Y.M.C.A.'s in Han- business competitor, the prophets cocoon-raiser who raising
than the cost of pessimista are right, this or some Secretary of the Internationalkow and Wuehang, and also of the of war assert that it would seem couns for loss less fantastic to a nation facing mulberry leaves to feed the larvae other research body would need to Committee of the Young Men's American Y.M.C.A. even partial, famine as result of eventually will get a price high and a method of reconciling con Christian Association, Mr. . C.
Mr. Harmon is travelling with lost markets or to a government enough to pay him a profit, or stop flicting standards or it would be Haworth, Secretary of the Y.M.
It is a fact that Impossible to avoid the meta C.A. in St. Louls and Mr. J. W. his wife and this is their first visit facing a revolution supported by raising cocoons. enough hungry men who had lost the Japanese in some lines of com- morphoals of the present inter-Beaton, Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. to this country. The picturesque their jobs.
merce are competing with the aid national business war into an inter- in Montreal. Mr. Beaton has a riverfront, the numerous shops, of government financial assistance, national war for business that special Interest in the Canton busy streets and tremendous re- which is not likely to be continued would be fought by soldiers Instead |Y.M.C.A. because of the fact that construction have grently im permanently although government of, salesmen.United Press. a large part of the fund used in 'pressed the visitors, Reuter.
WRP
seems
Not even the gloomicat among the pekalmists predicts a war for business within any stated period, er in the very near future. They do not even attempt to name the probable participants in the war, although almost everyone agrees
that if such war were ever begun i
it would load quickly to another; world-wide candigration. Finally. although they consider it smali comfort, they accept the obvious fact that such a war would be averted if the nations found it possible to make important econ omic readjustments quickly enough,
WASTED MATERIAL
"Japan in the words of one veteran student of Far Eastern! affairs, "is successfully using America's waste interlal to com- pele with American industry in -world-markets.”-
This is true in some enues, ut least. For example, Japanese bt- cycles are sold in London more. cheaply than English blcycles nod in San Antonio far more cheaply than those made in America be- cause the Japaneso manufacturer in many cases hus constructed the frame of his cycle out of used boiler tubing bought at an in- significant price from an American junk dealer. Painted in attractive colours, the same metal which was no longer serviceable for heating equipment probably is quite s serviceable in a bicycle frame as newly rolled steel. And reclaim- able junk is cheaper than newly rolled steel in any currency of the
world.
Japan la buying American scrap Iron in enormous quantities. Her Imports during 1934 wore alightly above 1,168,000 tons. Some of this vast accumulation from American: owners and the floating junk plle steamed to Yokohama under its own power. In Japanese foundries, the materials Americans had vir tually thrown away as useless were re-made into useful articles which could be sold at remarkably low
The Prince of Wales, who has. romantly taken lessons in bag- pips-playing from Pips-Major Forsyth, piper of the King, has.
will be lessened.
Hers is besutiful camera study of the Duke and Duchess of York and thair two children, the Princasına. Margaret Base and Elizabeth. Princess Elizabeth will be nina years old on April 21. Sha is still the most beloved child in England. The Duke of York, is tha second son, Prince Albert, of King George and Queen Mary. Their beautiful daughter, Elizabeth, is third in succession to the throne:
compound a slow march for the piper callad “Mallorca” (Spanish for Majorca), after the Balenrin faland which he bas more than once visited Both Pipe-Molor Fereyth
and Pipe Major Robertson, of the Scots Guards, to whom it was offered,,
playing it at the changing of the guard at Backlingham Palace. ¿ The
a beautiful melody and a slirring Hit: Now the news comes that Firs
nthusiaste pyér it, and the pipars' band of the Soots Guárda rakwaraad it with a view to
6 first Ume at the Tower of London. It has been dmcribed as a very fine, march with the Scola Guhede" has” been appointed to-tech His Royal Highness the advancesi
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