Kingston, May 9.
the Jamaica Legislature to-day authorized quota legislation, reducing the imports of cotton and rayon from Japan, thus becoming the first British colony to comply with Mr. Walter Runciman's request for re-Briction of such Japanese imports United Press.
No Forestalling was further proposed that the necessary legislation in Colonial territories should be enacted with the least possible delay and that it should framed that the actual regular would be reckoned as beginning re: trospectively from to-day, May 7, so that no attempt at forestalling would be allowed (o frustrate the policy and intentions of the measures under contemplation."
In dhe most important of the West African Colonies, there were treaty obligations which precluded a ditferentiation in favour of British goods.
was for this reason thal, a year ago, notice was given to release the West African Colonies from their obligations under the Anglo-Japanese Treaty and action there would be Uimited to Japanese. goods.
Mr. Runciman added that, while he had not dealt in this statement with the position of any goods other than cotton and rayon textiles, the Govern-
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