Hated as Official, Loved as Man: Chinese Firm's Failure and "Japanese Competition" rome Oun Own Comesroxoext Singapore, June 18.
'The news which has eclipsed all other subjects in conversation in this place, and in fact all over Malaya, has been that Sir Cecil Clementi, our Governor, has resigned, and that Sir Shenton 'Thomas is to' succeed him. This resignation was not unexpected, and many thought that we should never see Sir Cecil back here again even when he left us to go on well-earned leave. That the cause of resignation is ill-health is not surprising to those of us who knew something of the inner burdens confronting him. while he was wrestling with his Job out here, and the wish is gen feral that a period of peace and quiet tude may soon restore one whom all deeply respect, much as they may have disagreed' with his oficial policy. with extra hands. The preferential taxes on goods from a British Colony, accordance with the terms of the [Ottawa Conference, and the high taritt wall built in Britain had been partially responsible for a tremendous increase in orders from. the British Iles. Scores of distributing branches in China, the Netherlands Indies, and Malaya were closed in order to'concentrate on the orders from England. What happened? With no more distributing branches to distribute sales and with a heavy drop in orders from England the various workshops were forced to work only two oF three, days a week and hundreds of ployees had to be dismissed in order: to make ends meet,
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