Osaka, June 8.
Firing the frst gun in what is described by experts as the most. viol-fent freight tariff war originating 1p Japan in recent years, the Nanyo Yusen Kaisha''s s. Samarang Maru, 4,013 tons, sailed from Osaka for the Netherlands East Indies yesterday.
Desperate efforts of the Japanese shipping firms to take business away from the Java-China-Japan Lijn, however, have failed. according 10 figures released here last month. Of 29,000 tons of cargo carried, on the Japan-NEL run, the java-Chin 'Japan' Lijn' transported "15,660 tons, for 54 per cent, while Japanese concerns shipped only 13,940 tons or 46 per cent, the survey indicated—
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