Representations aimed at securing lower telegraph rates between Japan and China and a reduction of the Chinese railway freight tariff on Japanese goods will be made to the Japanese Government.
Also voled upon favourably was an urgent motion to petition the Tokyo authorities to assign trade commis sioners to Hongkong, Canton, Hankow, Taingiao, Tsinan, and Tienwin, and to seck™ the extension of the present Shanghai-Japan telephone service to other parts of China mild rebuke for using stlustras tions originally appearing in British machinery catalogues was administered Japanese businessmen present at tthe meeting by Mr. Kojiro Twat, commercial councillor of the Japanese Embassy.
have received complaints that Japanese manufacturers are prone to use British illustrations in their catalogues," Br. aid. "Such practices "appear to me es being Aoubly reprehensible for "Japanese machinery it good and nothing to be ashamed of," Me. Iwai said, "Why not give accurate original iMusteations" Complaints that Chinese manufacturers wore falsifying Japan-labels were subsequently heard.
Several "representatives. alleged that the Chinese railway tariff discriminated against Japanese goods and urged a reform,
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