Japanese goods of all kinds are being pushed in all towns. I recently stayed day or tws in a large town and saw over a core of Japanese ginning machines iz operation. The firm which has them now monopolise the oil refining as well as cotton exportation. These machines have Vanished the more primitive machine into the loft and rubbish rooms of village homes, making them needless, All cotton must be brought to market: in the rough. The firms have their own oil factories and thus have combined the two industries to their own profit, but to the impoverishment of the villager. I learned that the price of these machiiter had increased one hundred per cent in a sear, and set there were none available in the market.
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