That anserupulous Dutch and Chinese merchants in the Dutch East Indies, particularly in Java and Sumatra, have been systematically ing Japanese trade marks is a charge that has just been made in practically every vernacular paper of Japan, dt ix declared that the Japanese have suitored considerably through this alleged pirating, losing considerable amount of business in, chemicals, dry batteries and cotton. piece-goods. "The Japanese, it stated, made several of the brands of goods popular in the Dutch Eas: Indies, but shoddy goods have been distributed under Japanese trade marks for some time and now the Japanese in the homeland find that goods bearing the original trade marks, however good, simply are turned down by the Japanese.
The papers which complain ly of this alleged birney and unfair method of meeting competition print a communication from Mr. Aneha, the Japanese consul at Soerabaya, according to which this oficial con firms the complaint of Japanese trade marks being pirated and utilised for damaging the prestige of Japanese factories. Japan has been supreme in regard to cotton cods in the Dutch East Indies, he says, but that this position is being: seriously challenged, and he urges Osaka and other merchants in Japan to take every precaution to have their marks properly registered with the Dutch East Indies authorities
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