The Archive · 1935

Japanese Textiles in Ceylon

Colombo, Feb. 1.

The State Council of Ceylon passed Colonial to suspend opera-resolution to-day asking the

ton of the quota system on Japanese textiles.

The resolution asserts that the grave hardshipe caused by the epidemic of malaria which has been ravaging the island would be alleviate fed by such action.

Since the operation of the quota system on. Japanese textiles, imposed with the object of assisting Lancahire, the population has had to pay Higher "nees "for "plecegnods— tracted from fly papers.

Enough arsenic was found in eleven out of the sixteen bodies exhumed to kill several elephants,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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