London, May 31.
Interviewed by Route today re-golding the revised Cuttoms tariff business men interested in the Far Eastt expressed the opinion that the Japanese! were obviously not considering Chinese interests, since they had reverted to the 1931 rates, which the Chinese Government found it essential for the country's finances to raise.
Concerning the possibility that the mew rates might, in some respects, benefit foreign importers, though palpably framed primarily to Japanes¢ advantage, business circles em. The tant was administered and the hiklized that all depended upon how
sincerity of J2panese promises to respect the Open Doo: 1 ancial News," in a leading article, enumerates elaborate schemes now being formulated in Japan to mónopolize all the chief industries and commercial! activities in the occupied parts of China.
lo newspaper cites statements by numerous Japanese spokesmen showing that the Japanese interpretation of he Open Door means no more than permission for foreign capital to be jnyested in Japanese enterprises.
*At the same time," the journal achs, "i is undeniable that Japan is growing weaker economically as well as|militarily, and is more dependent on the goodwill of Britain and other western countries."
tthe longer the war lasts, the greater will be the chance that a firm stand by Westerners against Japan's treaty violations will yield the desired results."—Reuter.
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