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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 29, 1989.

"BRITISH" GOODS MADE OF JAPANESE CLOTH TO TEMPT HOME MARKETS

KING COULD BE U.S. PRESIDENT

Judge R. Walton Moore, who at the age of eighty travelled from America in the air liner Yankee Clipper, said at a luncheon for the passengers in London that if the King and Queen took out natural- isation papers and ran for the Presidency of the United States, he was sure they would beat all comère,“

“I think the Queen could charm à bird off the bush,” he added.

JEW WHO YELLED

HEIL HITLER" SAID TO BE MAD

A 65-year-old Jew was acquitted by a special court in Fran ́ ́urt-on- Main on a charge of greeting an official with the Nazi salute and the words "Heil Hitler!"" and describing himself as "an old Na- tional Socialist fighter."

A doctor gave evidence that the Jew was suffering from schizop- hrenia split personality and

shirts referred to by Mr. Kirkwood he was sent to a mental institution. as being sold retail at 1s 6d each

The value of manufactured goods from Japan has steadily fallen during the past three years, as a result, it is believed, mainly of a refusal by the public to buy Japanese goods. At the same time, however, the value of British “raw material” from which British goods are made has increased.

The position is illustrated by underwear are actually made in figures provided a special corres- Japan,, sent here as material, and pondent at the Board of Trade. run together by cheap girl laboured

in British factories," a represen- tative of a wholesale firm of silk stocking merchants stated.

The total value of articles of wearing apparel imported from Japan into Britain during the first quarter of this year fell to £296,- 000, compared with £421,000 last year. On the other hand, the im- ports of material from which these articles could be made as "British" increased.

The value of silk and artificial silk material from Japan rose from £346,000 in the first quarter of 1938 to £361,000 in the first quarter of this year. To other countries as well thousands of pounds worth of Japanese material is being sent to be made up and imported in Britain as other than Japanese goods.

JAPANESE UNDERCUTTING "Thousands of so-called British- made silk stockings and articles of

B.B.C. CHIEF'S GERMAN SPEECH ON WAR GRAVES

Mr. F. W. Ogilvie, Director-Gen- eral of the B. B. C., who lost-a hand at Hill 60, in the war, broad- cast in the German programme from Daventry on "What can broadcasting do for peace?" spoke in German.

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"My opinion," he said, "is that the world-wide development of international broadcasting has perhaps more far-reaching · possi- bilities of good than almost any other movements of our time.

"Have not the troubles of the world throughout history been due very often to misunderstanding, to ignorance of facts and ignorance of other people's ways of life and their points of view, which also are facts of a very important kind?"

"YOURS AND OURS"

He concluded his broadcast by reference to a visit he paid to the Ypres salient a few months ago: He wanted, he said, "to see what

the salient looked like from the German side.

It

was a lovely clear spring

day, with the larks singing over- head;

"There were cemeteries of your side by side with cemeteries

· dead

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of

dead, all beautifully tended.

our

"At points there were piles of debris your square tin hats and our round ones still waiting to be cleared away.

"In many of the fields were boys and girls with buckets, Alling them with bit

and ours → 20 years

They could imagine

he said.

are sold wholesale at 8s a dozen,

He found women's ankle socks being sold over the counter at 2d 234d a pair. In a suburban street à pair, artificial silk stockings at market men's half-hose were offer-

at three pairs for 6d. QUESTIONS, IN COMMONS Mr. David Kirkwood, M. P. for Dumbarton Burghs, is to ask the Examples of Japanese undercut-President of the Board of Trade: ting of British manufacturers "Whether he is aware of the low were given at many London whole- prices at which Japanese goods are sale and retail houses. Men's sold in this country, and that men's

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was

A Jewess, aged 42, who charged with using insulting lan- guage about a member of the Gov- ernment was also described as schizophrenic.

shirts are being sold at 18 6d each,

pants and vests at 9d, ladies' vests ́at 6d and embroidered nightdresses at is 6d; and whether he will in- troduce. legislation to prevent the importation of these goods, which are either subsidised by the Japanese Government or are the product of sweated labour.”

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