There are things in China which must make one laugh even while they make one furious, The atten-was drawn recently to the fact that its trade mark being flagrantly imitated in a port of Chekiang in which it) does 8 good deal of business. There is consul in this port, but the aaaistance of some local" Chinese was obtained and a representative of the firm went down to interview the delinquent, After the usual absent blue and puerile excuses, mostly of course a vain attempt to' save face, the culprit admitted he lad done wrong and promised to stop the infringement, but on condition that the British firm would pay him $200 in compensation for the loss he would suffer through having to destroy his forged labels and other paraphernalia, as the British firm naturally insisted he must do, In other words, the aggrieved party is expected to pay for the expense to which the aggressor has been put, because the fraud the latter was committing had been detected and stopped. Truly a wonderful line of argument. And everyone involved appeared to think it quite fair, except the pestilent and unreasonable foreigner.
Last July the Soviet Government made a donation of 8,000 books through the Soviet Embassy Tokyo, to the Tokyo Imperial University, Waseda, Tokyo School of Foreign Languages, and Tokyo Academy of Art. It being the summer vacation the books were, left unpacked at these institutions, but when the holidays were over the Inet two named institutions unpacked them and found among them 400 books the sale of which is banned Japan. The Metropolitan Police Board hearing of this, subjected them to an inspection' and found over two dozen books of "Red" propaganda, which they seized. At the same time, with the consent of the Home Oice, they instructed the university authorities not to open the eases containing the other books,
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