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WILL NATIONS FIGHT

FOR MARKETS?.

PESSIMISTS SEE CONFLICT AS SURE RESULT OF RIVALRY

By JOHN MORRIŞ.

Tokyo.

THE HONGKONG

CHINA IMPORT DUTY

PROTECTION OF NATIVE GOODS THE OBJECT

Nanking. Apr. 14.

TELEGRAPH MONDAY APRIL

It is authoritatively intimated that the Ministry of Finance Is prepared to promulgate a revised Import tariff early in June, which Is intended to produce the effect of

try, and agriculture.

The opinion is growing among some foreign observers inadequately protecting home fuĉus- the Far East that Japanese competition with the industrial nations of the West eventually will lead to war. This does not appear) 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, nary being ordered to bombard "Japan," continued the possi Yokohama because Japanese goods mistic prophets, "has a large and are crowding forelga competitors growing population of factors out of some lucrative markets, workers whose modes of living are nor is Japan expected to begin as economical as the manufactur- hostilities by sending her factory's ing methods of their employers." salesmen abroad in Japanese des troyers or bombing plance. The

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LIVING COSTS

The detailed items of the re- vised tariff are being closely studi ed by a committeo jointly formed by the Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs, which has to follow the following lings:

(1) Maximum Customs ratés to be applied to those imports, which compete against congenial products in China;-

(2) Imported raw materials to be subjected to the lowest possible Cuslonis treatment or even exemp-

tion of Customs; and

(3) the existing Customs rates

Lord Lytton of England being given a warm" handsbaku by Ethel Barrymore famous slaga star, during the lunchson tendered in bosour of Lord and Lady Lytton by the League for Political Educa- tion in New York.

Y.M.C.A. VISITORS ·

TÓ TOUR CENTRAL AND NORTH CHINA

Canton, Apr. 14.

of

the, erection of the Canton · As- sociation buildings was given by residents of Montreal more twenty years ngʊ.

than

issuca would be obscured thorough. It is a fact, that living costs in ly by pretexts dressed up na vital Japan are decidedly below those of But the soldiers and many of the countries which com- sailors killed in battle, and the pete with Japan in world markets, of Imported luxury goods to be in- civilian populations which would bo it is a fact that many Occidental ceased all round.---Gentral News. terrorised, maimed or obliterated workmen spend on unessential= would be equally dead, regardless comforts and recreation each week of the slogans expressing the war more than the living expenses of participation. In business is the rule aims of the opposing sides.

rather than the exception in this the entire family of an

Asiatic UNPLEASANT ALTERNATIVES workman who may be performing country. It is more than likely a comparable task. The observers that Occidentals of all classes In

From Hongkong the party will This correspondent has discussed who predict a war for business the years immediately ahead will

sail for Shanghal and then the the dangers of the situation with point out that tariff barriers and spend less lavishly than in the past,

Yangtse cities. They are expected some of the most experienced import restrictions are inadequate if this proves to be the case, and and wages generally may be lower.

After brief visit to Cantonat Hankow towards the latter part students of international commerce to correct the inequalities in crom standards of living in the Orient during which they inspected the of April when they will meet Dr. and politics, and among them are mercial competition resulting from aume convinced that a "business these differences in living standi reled perceptibly, the Y.M.C.A. activities here, and were John R. Mott, the "world's Chris- difference between Eastern and war" is inevitable. The pessimists dards.

Western standards of living will speakers at various educational and tan statesman" there. A number of important Y.M.G.A. conferences A more reassuring view is taken have been reduced and the Asiatic social organisations, n group feel that Japan to-day is assuming a position in the commercial field by another school of thought on comparable in many ways to that the same subject. There is the manufacturer's prenent advantage Y.M.C.A. leaders from the United will be held in Central China.

Sintes and Canada are leaving for

During their visit here the group Hongkong to-day en route to Cen- received a warm reception from which Germany occupied in the last possibility that Japanese workmen will be lessened. few years preceding the World will refuse to continue indefinite- A special regional conference of tral and North China. In the the local Chinese oflclais and 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 n receive to-day. It is not un-is to be opened here soon, to spend former newspaper editor from the party will be the guests of the counter-attack againat a purely reasonable to suppose that

the week mainly in a discussion of Hattisburg, Mississippi, who for local Committees of Management business competitor, the prophets cocoon-raiser who is raising co-national living standards. If the the last four years has been the of the Chinese Y.M.C.As in Han- of war assert that it would seem

than the cost of pessimists are right, this or some Secretary of the International tow and Wachang, and also of the Jess fantastic to a natiou facing mulberry leaves to feed the Jaryne 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 find a method of reconciling con-Christina Association, Mr. L. C. lost markets or to a government enough to pay him a profit, or stop | dieting standards or it would be Haworth, Secretary of the Y.M. facing a revolution supported by raising coccons. It is a fact that impossible to avoid the meta-C.A. in St. Louis and Mr. J. W. enough hungry men who had lost the Japanese in some lines of com- morphesis of the present inter-Benton, Secretary of the Y.M.C.A.. their jobs.

merce are competing with the aid national business war fito an inter- in Montreal. Mr. Beaton has of government financial assistance, national war for business that special interest in the Canton Not even

the gloomiest uniong which is not likely to be continued would be fought by 'suldiers' instead } Y.M.C.A. because of the fact that the pessimists predicts a war for permanently although government of salesmen-United Press. a large part of the fund used in business within any stated period or in the very near future. They do not even attempt to name the probable participants in the war, although almost everyone agrees that it such a war were ever begun it would lead quickly to another world-wide conflagration. Finally, although they consider it small comfort, they accept the obvious fact that such a war would be averted if the nations found it possible to make important cron-p omic readjustments-quickly enough.

WASTED MATERIAL

"Zupan," in the words of one veteran student of Far Eastern!

affairs, "is successfully

using America's waste material to com- pete with American industry in

·world-markets.”—

This is true in some cases, at least. For example. Japanese bi- cycles are sold in London more cheaply than English bicycles and. in San Antonio far more cheaply than those made in America bo cause the Japanese manufacturer in many cases has constructed the frame of his eyele out of used boller 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 serviceable in a bleyela frame as nowly rolled steel. Amt reclaim- able junk is cheaper than newly rolled steel in any currency of the world.

As

Japan is buying American scrap iron in enormous quantities. Her imports during 1934 were slightly above 1,108,000 tons. Some of this vast necumulation from American owners and the floating junk ple steamed to Yokohama under its rown 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

coons for less

The Prince of Wales; who has vacantly taken lovsane" in "bag- pipe-playing." from Pipo:Mejor Forsyth, piper of the King, bai

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Mr. Harmon is travelling with his wife and this is their first visit to this country. The picturesque riverfront, the numerous shops, basy streets and tremendous re- construction have greatly im- pressed the visitors.-Router.

Hara la beautiful camera study of the Duke and Duchess of York and their two children, the Princesses Margaret Rose and Elizabeth. Pelneuss Elizabeth will be nine years old on April 21. She is still the most beloved child in England. The Duke of York, is the second son, Prince Albori, of King George and Queen Mary Thair beautiful daughter, Elizabalk, fa third in succession to the throne.

composed slow march, for the pipes called "Mallorca" (Spanlih for

mad Pipe-Major Robertson, of the Seats Guarda, to whom it was öffa playing it at the changing of the guard at Basklingham Palace

a beautiful melody and a stirring it. Now the news comes that Fi

a); after the Balsario laland which he has more than once visited. Both Pipa Mojor Forsyth enthusiastle over it, and the pigere, band'ofitba Septa Guards yehearind it with elow ta

Brut aims at the Towar of London. It has been described as a very fine minrch with bahur of the Scolà Curidi, has been appointed to tasch His Royal Highness, the, advanced.

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