The Archive · 1937

SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS AS JAPAN BOYCOTT

Glasgow, Nov. 22.

Boycott of Japanese goods was demanded here yesterday by Sir Statford Cripps, Labour MP. for East Bristol.

Berlin, Nov, 22.

Mr. Paul Ravoux, Havas chief editor and correspondent in Berlin, left yesterday. and travelled to Paris by the same train as Lord Halifax. He was asked to leave the country within six days, the German authorities having objected (to his journalistic activities in Berlin, Fifty foreign newspaperman and. correspondents came to the station and gave him a warm farewell when the train left.—Havas.

Britain, he said, imported £8} millions worth of Japanese goods annually. A boycott by British buyers and customers would strike a decisive blow at Japanese trade. also accused Japan of having deliberately encouraged the smuggling of drugs into China for many years, to weaken Chinese moral resistance pud make China "an easier prey."

Money for medicine supplies to China was collected after the meeting.—Havas.

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