Osaka, Apr. 18.
Members of the American economic Mission will leave Japan to-morrow for China without having reached-any Sgreement with Japanese financiers Jand industrialists regarding the Chi-Frese market, it was learned to-day.
Japanese "business circles were anxious to conclude some tangible to forestall possible jolent trade competition with Amer! can interests in the China market, hich is expected to show new signs (of activity as a consequence of the Mission's: visit.
While Japanese admit that there is Little Iikelihood "of competition developing in connection with American, aeroplane or automobile sales, Indications that the Mission is interested in the furtherance of markets for electrical machinery and ships have given rise to fears of a possible "trade war" in these lines, 'A conflict over the Chinese market, JJapanese merchants aver, may lead to a decrease in Japan's national revenue and would affect Japanese Jpurchases abroad, especially in the United States, Members of the Mission are said to have agreed that a conflict is not desirable, out they have refused to commit themselves any further.
The Mission, sponsored by the Us national Council of Foreign Trade, is sailing for Shanghai from Kobe to-aboard the s. President
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