July 12, Much food for thought is provided and a considerable field for investigation opened through the instrumentality of a. para. graph such as the following which is published by the Kuo Wen News Agency:—In view of the difficulties exper-fenced by local weaving and knitting mills in the source of supply of cotton yarn on account of the anti-Japanese boycott, a step has been taken by the various Knitting and weaving concerns of Shanghai to raise @ huge sum by proportional contributions in support of a cotton yarn spinning cooperative society. The collection of the capital for the new project has already begun, and definite news about its organiza.
will be available in the near future.
The first thing this item of news suggests is that, not for the first time either, the Chinese are finding the boycott very much of a two-edged weapon. Readers may remember having seen paragraphs during the past two or three weeks to the effect that certain Chinese factories had had to go out of basines temporarily because they, were un-fable to secure their wonted materials, and investigation showed that, when cut off from Japanese yarn, they were left [stranded. "The position is that only in rare instances do the mills in Shanghai spin yarns of the fineness required for this particular cloth weaving industry or for the great knitting industry of which Shanghai is the centre, and these have to be imported from Japan. When the boycott committees started [work tentative inquiries were made with the idea of securing English yarn, but for reasons [which will be described - later, these were not persisted in Uikimatey, in the majority agy cases, the' announcement wal made that the actones in ques
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