Tokyo, Mar. 6.
Although the Government. does not appear to contemplate a formal protest, it is reliably learned that the Japanese Ambassador in Lon-"Mr. Matsudaira, has been in London concerning the proposal to raise the tariff on imported cotton-goods in India. He has been instructed to point out, among other arguments against "the increase, that India took forty-eight per cent. of Japan's cotton textile exports last year while Japan, during the past twenty years, has been taking one-third of India's exports of raw cotton. It is feared therefore that the increased tariff, i€ imposed, will strike a serious, blow at the Japanese cotton trade and, at the same time, serve to Iimpair the friendly relations exist
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