The Archive · 1935

Japanese Object to Licensing

500 Likely to Lose Jobs by Chinese Rules Tokyo, Sept. 14, Japanese objections to the proposed enforcement by the Chinese Government of regulations for the licensing of ship's officers will be renewed by Mr, Yakichiro Suma, Consul-General in Nanking, under instructions from the Tokyo Foreign Olfice. The demarche will be undertaken on. the grounds that the enforcement of the Fegulations, unless carried out justly and fairly, will throw out of their Jobs 500 or more Japanese seafaring men who have berths on Chinese The regulations were promulgated in 1920, but have not veen enforced, because of Japanese remonstrations, According to reports reaching here, the Nanking authorities propose to ply the provisions of the measure at the end of this month—Rengo,

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