Even more serious, however, are the trade restrictions that are being constantly imposed by the Japanese military authorities. The wool and kins brought down from Mongolia via Potow, the terminus of the Peking-Suiyuan line, form one of the main exports of Tientsin In the early days, after the conquest of that territory, the Japanese did for a time establish a kind of monopoly in these products. A large part of the wool thus acquired was shipped in motarlorries along the motor highway via Dolonor to Manchoukuo, where it was used for making army blankets and uniforms. Later on, the monopoly was lifted, cither because of foreign protests or, more likely, because the Army authorities had as unch as they could use fcr the time being,
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