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OMISSION OF WORD.

PARTY MEMBER GETS HIS NOSE

PUNCHED.

In order to prevent foreign

Tokyo, Saturday. countries from dumping their

The Budget Committee were Washington, Yesterday, surplus products in China, and to

thrown into confusion! again The term "rehabilitation" has to-day by the Seiyukai's construc protect China's domestic trade been invoked to settle the drought tive tactics and verbal asults and industry, the National Gov-relief squabble. between President en Baron Shehara, the Minister ernment has drafted a series of Hoover and the Senate. Anti-Dumping Regulations which promise has been reached whereby with his reference to the Naval A com of Foreign Affairs, in connection make interesting reading.

instead of a $25,000,000 grant Treaty.

are

According to these, the Gov-for food, $20,000,000 will be ernment proposes to impose an added to the $45,000,000 already a member of the Seiyukai (Con- This morning the uproar led to Anti-Dumping Tax, in addition to allotted for loans to farmers instructive Opposition Party) in- the usual Customs import duty, drought areas. on foreign imports which

dulging in This addition will be specifically Minseito Member, whose nose he

fisticuffs with shipped to China in large for "farm rehabilitation," which quantities and sold at unusually expression the Democrats (who are

punched. low prices, as the importation of in a majority in the Senate), are accord

The Japanese Press with one such goods has resulted in keenaatisfied covers food grants, while disgraceful scenes, in which a condemns yesterday's competition with native pro-Government supporters consider Seiyukai supporter knifed a sup- ducts of a similar nature. the omission of the word "food" porter of the Minseito (Govern-

preserves them from the blot of ment Party). having sanctioned an "Un-Ameri-

The newspapers

demand can dole."-Reuter's

American cessation of such violent out- Service.

fbreaks which, they fear, will [destroy the people's confidence in the Parliamentary Government.--

Investigation Committee. Foreign Imports, which will come under the heading of "dumped" goods, will include those which are sold in China at prices lower than those prevail. ing in the nation of their pro- duction after transportation Icharges,

and

insurance costs other necessary cost have been deducted; those which are sold in China at prices lower than the prices of the same products sold in other foreign nations by the nation of production; and those which are sold in China at prices lower than their cost.

FROZEN TO DEATH.

TERRIBLE PLIGHT OF SOVIET CONVICTS.

ROOFLESS BARRACKS.

Reuter.

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SOME EMINENT VISITORS TO BERLIN.

London, Yesterday. Appalling disclosures of the

Nauen, Dec. 22. conditions in the prison camps. of Berlin: Mr. Sinclair Lewis, re- Soviet Russia are contained in cipient of the Nobel Prize for sworn statements by escaped Literature, has arrived here for a An Investigation Committee, prisoners, forwarded to the Prime Christmas holiday. In an inter- composed of six representatives Minister by Commander Bellairs. view he described 83 his "most -three from the Ministry of These, alleged that 662,000 pri- exalted moments" during the Stock- Finance and three from the soners are engaged in timber holm festivities those five Ministry of Industry-will be ap-work. Numbers of these prison-minutes in which I was not being pointed to investigate the ers are forced to sleep on frozen interviewed.". "dumping" of commercial com- floors in overcrowded and roofless Another luminary in the inter- modities in China by foreign barracks. Typhus is rife among national literary world staying at countries, either voluntarily or the prisoners, costing the lives of Berlin, Edgar Wallace, submitted a at the request of the people. tens of thousands of them.

public interview over a hook-up of After determining whether Hardly any prisoners possess all German senders, vividly any foreign products sold in warm clothing, and cases of freez-escribing crime conditions in the China come within the category ing are an almost daily occur-United States and expressing his of "dumped" goods, the com- rence.

gratification at the welcome mittee will immediately refer Work in winter is carried on corded him in the capital, "despite such matters to the Ministries of from five o'clock in the morning the dark days settling upon Ber- Finance and Industry, and, If until eight o'clock at night. lin." Mr. Wallace in supervising deemed necessary, the Govern- Every prisoner has to saw down the last rehearsals of the German ment may, after studying the re-thirty-five trees daily, and those version of his U.S. underworld ports submitted, impose an Anti-not completing their task are play, "On the Spot," which has Dumping Tax on

and such foreign thrashed

their meagre turned out a dismal failure in imports.

rations reduced.---Reuter.

London.

Government Subsidies. The Anti-Dumping Tax will { not be higher than the difference between the producers' costs (ex- cluding necessary expenses) and the producers' export prices or between the producers' costs and the producers' wholesale prices in China.

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