"Painful Significance"
To the Editor of the Nontu-Cina Day News"
'Sin—When I opened your paper of the 10th inst., I could not. help smiling as the first thing that struck 8 the statement that the Cotton Spinners' Federa-decided to boycott. Indi Raw Cotton, I should have thought that the word "boycott" had a painful significance for the Japanese. Tu fact the Japanese have com. plained bitterly of the injustice of the Chinese boycott and surely if anyone had a justification for a boycott the Chinese had, as one Jeould hardly expect them to remain passive while Japan stole a large proportion of their country, but it is a very different matter to introduce a boycott simply because the import tariff on Japanese piece-in India is being raised.
eral Araki and people of his ilk it was a time of momentous' con-China "but they cannot doit to ference among the chiefs of all the nations, So the Assistant-Hendling—Monger, being an ingenious yo Fapan is one of the worst offenders wwerful Nation' like. England.
and having a small opinion of the eveating protective tariff and intelligence of the journal's readers, she. must not' be surprised if the British Empire. protects herself. prepared for many moons wonder what duty Japanese goods time the thick type headlines for! pay on entry into Korea? the conference's proceedings. "Dol I not know," said he, through} The Japanese nation, I am afraid, much experience in domestic debate or rather should 1 say. the military and as chairman of the suburban party in Japan, since it flouted the Bowling Club Committee, not League of Nat is suffering mention previous reports' of inter. from "swelled head" and it is high time it realised that such methods conferences, that the palavers will pass through many well-will not do with a powerful nation known phases?" So he set up, in the like Great Britain. type usually reserved for murders and suchlike easy copy, the head.
Shangtumg, June 13, 1933. lines for several week's issues. of incomparable newspaper, which eluded the following: "Gloom Descends on Conference." Day of
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