Last week the Committee of preiminarien for general national Dilization met and finished their work, which consisted in deciding on the departments necessary to carry. ing out an all nation mobilization and also in organizing bodies to find the ways and means, The depart-rents are to be three, namely, 1st, ental Superintendance, an exten ion of the Cabinet; 2nd. the Exeentives and rd the consultive organs While the ways and" means body Shipments during May amounted to only 241,000 pounds, a fall of over:
Australia, South America, the Bal- the will consist of two branches, namely Ifans and! Afvien to advertise her te, @evoumees_ Bureau and. the £00,000 pounds from 644,000 pounds! exported during the corresponding period of last year. This is largely ascribed to the improvement in the Yen-dollar exchange and also to the! ever-stock of green tea in the United States. Pessimism broods over tea circles here and it is doubted when ther, this year, Japan could exper! as much as she did last year.
Frost tu the tea-growing areas late autumn prevent favourable' growth of the +ea bushes, and results!
a crop of inferior quality from otherwise good tea. What to do with this inferior material, which cannot be exported to America, i also worrying tea growers.—Russia is coming back as a tea-drinker and merchants are contemplating send. ing the inferior tea to Soviet-land.
The decrease in the exper: of 3apan tea to Canada and the United, States has been marked during the! past five years, and the decrease became accentuated with the wide Fublicity for Ceylon and Assam tea undertaken throughout the United ye industries.
This is one of the measures taken for encouraging Japan's foreign trade, and the museums are: to be-established at a cost of over a million yen- The] Ministry of Commerce and Industty further proposes to conduct pro-Paganda for Japan's commerce and industries and proposes to promote ample fairs in many countries next This year the Goversment gave! Yen 50,000 for purchasing such! foreign commodities as compete with japanese in foreign markets. This is said to have proved a great stimulus to Japanese merchants and ithe Ministry of Commerce and Industry proposes to increase *hia Jamount to Yen 194,000 next year. Next year, it is also proposed to conduct a thorough investigation into} the customs systems and anti-dumping control measures extant in foreign countries.
The commercial museum in Harbin is the largest commercial museum Japan has in foreign lands. This is to be enlarged next year for the purpose of extending Japanese lecénomie activities with Manchuri and Mongolia and with Russia.
This does not mean that a general national mobilization will forthwith be carried out but that the organization of ways and means will be formulated s0 that they may be put {in operation without delay whenever! necessary.
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