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ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXPORT OF JAPANESE COTTONS TO
MANCHURIA.
ARTICLE 18.
Members of the Association shall contribute the following amounts according to the quantity handled by them. The expenses of the Association shall be defrayed therefrom and the balance made into a reserve fund.
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.
ARTICLE 1. This Association shall be called the Association for the export of Japanese cottons to Manchuria.
ARTICLE 2. The objects of the Association are to enforce upon manufacturers the regulation of quality of Japanese cotton yarn, tissues and manufactures and the improvement of packing; to reform dishonest action in the districts of sale, and to make plans for the support and extension of the market.
ARTICLE 3. Membership of the association is limited to persons having shops or maintaining agents in Mauchuria and dealing direct with Chinese merchants.
ARTICLE 1. The cotton yarn, tissues and manufactures handled by the Association may be forwarded in accordance with the agreement for through transport made between the Association and the Railway Bureau and the Corean and South Manchurian Railways.
ARTICLE 6. The Association is determined to enforce the regulation of quality and the improvement of packing in conformity with a standard specially fixed upon.
ARTICLE 6. Members of the Association may not handle goods other than those produced by manufacturers who have undertaken to regulate quality and improve packing in conformity with the standard of the preceding article.
ARTICLE 7. The Association shall maintain inspectors who shall from time to time examine the goods handled by members of the Association, and who shall investigate the condition of the demand in Manchuria and assist in extending the market.
ARTICLE 8. The Association shall establish an office in Osaka.
ARTICLE 9. The Association shall elect a Committee from among the members.
ARTICLE 10. The Association shall elect a President by mutual election among the Committee, and shall make bim its representative; it shall also appoint him to superintend the work of the Association and to supervise its accounts.
ARTICLE 11. Entrance to the Association shall be decided by the approval of the whole body of members.
ARTICLE 12. Members of the Association shall deposit with the Association Yen 5,000 (£510) as a pledge of good faith.
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ARTICLE 14. A member of the Association whose conduct is contrary to the objects of the Association shall be expelled from the Association and bis deposit confiscated by the decision of the Committee.
ARTICLE 15. The term of the Association shall be one year in conformity with the contract with the Railway Bureau. The continuance of the agreement shall be decided upon one month before the expiry of the term.
ARTICLE 16. In the event of the Association being dissolved the Reserve Fund and the money confiscated shall be distributed in accordance with the quantity handled by members of the Association for railway transport.
ARTICLE 17. The Reserve Fund formed by the pledges of good faith of the Association shall be applied as a guarantee fund in conformity with the contract with the Railway Bureau. The balance shall be deposited in a reliable Bank.
ARTICLE 18. When entrance to the Association has been assented to, a sum of money in proportion to the Reserve Fund created otherwise than by entrance fees shall be contributed by the person entering the Association according to the decision of the Committee.
Translation from Manchu Nichi Nichí Shimbun, of 14th April, 1914.
JAPANESE PREFERENCE IN MANCHURIA.
The Japanese authorities would be wise to take to heart the comments made by Mr. A. M. Marshall, concerning the preferential treatment of Japanese goods at the Antung Customs and on the railways in Manchuria. There has been a strong feeling for a long time that non-Japanese nationalities were not receiving proper treatment in that part of the country, and British resentment may easily lead to serious difficulties. That is not a matter which specially concerns us, but the whole principle is one that involves certain assumptions against which China must enter an emphatic protest. The assumption is that the old and discarded theory of spheres of influence has been revived and recognised in China. If Japan claims special Customs privileges in Manchuria and along Manchurian railways then similar privileges may be claimed, and should rightly be claimed, elsewhere by other nationalities. Thus, in the Yangtsze valley, the British might claim special reductions in
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