TELEPHONE Nos. 10335 (Manager), 12714 (Auction Department) against the Japanese, because but (according to Japanese own statistics) they have killed over one million Chinese. These dead Chinese were potential consumers of the cheap but unenduring articles made in Japan. Many millions more Chinese have been impoverished or made destitute, in other words, the buying power of just so many users or potential users of the Japanese goods has been destroyed. Then too, Japan has lost quite a bit of her trade in Europe and America whose people, some of them at least, have found it impossible knowingly to use Japanese-made goods, feeling as if they were guilty of being an accessory to the Japanese criminal acts in China by contributing toward the Japanese war chest through the purchase of Japanese articles, There are others whose aesthetic sense is- nauseated by Japanese atrocities and are unable to bear even the touch not to say the use of goods from Japanese manufactories. As an example of these may be mentioned the "Ca-eds" of American universities and colleges who have steadfastly refused to wear silk stockings because the silk had r come from Japanese cocoons. The indignation of these American young women, leaders and future leaders of their country, must be of a very high intensity to make them forgo the use of silk stockings which are not only pleasant to wear but also serve admirably to accentuate the loveliness of their beautifully formed limbs.
Japan has lost much business and, what is worse, goodwill of the people of the world.
It is indeed strange that for a people reputed to be and generally recognized as smart should have utterly failed to take these debits into consideration before they plunged into the horrors of a modern war, the more pathetic in that it had been absolutely un-necessar; It is possible that they had in mind to recover their financial outlay; and make up for their losses in trade by the tactics to which you gave the polite name of h Finance." It must be so for they have tried it in Manchuria and find it paying. In Manchuria the Japanese have been ing into practically all the remunerative private enter isos owned by Chinese and Russians at an arbitrary fixed low price, not at all commensurable with its real worth. is a very able member of the Guinness family, ahd was himself born in Dublin.
Known and liked in the House of Commons as Lieut-Col the Hon. W. E.'Guinne: he bade fair to go a long way polities, and was Minister of Agriculture for some years. He seemed to abandon an active political career when he was raised to the peerage. But he has presided over one Royal Commission since—that on the University of Durham—and has undertaken several missions for the Govment. Having the advantage of knowing the. West Indies well, he should make a good chairman of the Commission.
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