ITH the news that Japan is not prepared to promise cooperation inthe suppression of the smuggling which is rampant in North China and which has had a most serious effect upon the Customs revenues in that part of the country, growing British concern was expressed at the annual meeting of the China Association.
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M. Bernard, presiding, emphasized the strong objections that British merchants, while appreciating Japanese difficulties in China, feel towards the methods which Tokyo has employed to further its policy.
"These methods are creating fresh problems of a grave and dangerous character both for C! and for ourselves", he said.
The slump in the price of contraband goods following upon the glutting of the market in North China has not served to curb the importation of these goods, a Chinese message, states timate industries in the North are faced with competition from the illegimate imports with which they cannot compete.
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