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THE CHINA MA

JAPAN KILLING FORE

Powers' Protests Will Be Useless

Washington.

Japan has bitten off a section of China contain- ing half its population and most of its wealth.

The end result of that is as certain to realistic observers as the rising sun.

Japan's share of the historic China trade will increase by leaps and bounds and the share of other nations will decrease in proportion.

The methods by which it will be other foreign goods were left brought about already are being standing on the railroad platform demonstrated with such marked while Japanese goods were routed success that the state department, ahead. through Ambassador Grew, has protested. By one trade device or another American and other for- eign merchants and business men have been frozen out of Manchu- kuo. Protests about that brought no result.

The latest protest mentions what has happened in Manchukuo and cautions Japan against letting it happen in the rest of China.

But the odds are, we get from more than one authentic source, that the results will be no better as far as American trade is con- cerned.

WILL WORK EVENTUALLY

Japan is next door to China and is determined to dominate it as a trade zone. ̈*

That has worked so well that Interior merchants, unable to be sure they will get American goods, now save themselves disappoint- ment and delay by ordering Japan- ese goods.

It does not take much of that to ruin foreign shippers.

SET UP OWN BANKS

The same processes will operate as effectively in the rest of China more recently brought under Japanese sway.

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If Japan had no other explana- tion ready, it could insist for several

years that "emergency" for the Cunard

liner Queen · E conditions continue to exist. By that time other foreign business Clydebank last two billion men in China would be ruined and It has spent some

It will cover the competition gone.

by 100 feet abov dollars or more in the 15 months' conquest.

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Japan has set up its own export So far, reports from the "front" banks in the conquered territory. indicate, the net returns have been American and other exporters have comparatively small because busi- to allow these banks such wide dis- mess does not thrive under the counts that they cannot make their bayonet.

trade profitable.

The But the methods Japan has

Japanese operators are adopted in the conquered territory allowed to pay. smaller discounts cannot fail to destroy competition and get the business. That sort of and leave virtually all export and thing Mr. Grew reports, already is GIVES IN AL import business in the hands of going on. Japanese.

Speaking for the United States

In his message to the Japan for-government, Ambassador Grew haa eign minister, Ambassador Grew demanded that the "Open Door" of. mentioned several devices. Foreign equal opportunity in China be pre- merchant ships are barred from served. If Japan refuses, will the operation on the lower Yangtze United States go to war about it? because of the "emergency." Japan- | Will we retaliate by putting up against shipment of ese ships continue hauling goods barriers up and down the river. But they Japanese goods to this country? refuse to haul American or other foreign goods.

The immediate answer to those Ambassador Grew does not men-questions is already written. What tion it, but reports had reached may happen in two years, five, or here earlier that American and ten years, is yet to be written.

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