That assistance is further accentrated by the fact that these "free trading" communities, being subject to none or little state interference and control, may in individual instances buy raw material or manufactured requirements, on the cheapest or apparently cheapest terms although such terms may, and have proved before in the long run on the motional scale, actually to harm and throw the extra cost upon these free trading communities.
If, then, Dr. Funk's appointment to the Reichsbank post and his new rge from the German Fuehrer to ordinate German economy, means extension of Nazi finance and trading methods as a fully committed policy or as a lever to obtain financial help from the Free Trading Powers, trends already manifest make the outlook for general appeasement, so dependent on the economic factor, grave and most serious indeed. it National Govern-
Eight Years' Term in Robbery Case Employee of Henningsen Ca.
Sentenced tional trade and interchangeability of eurrencies—preference tariffs and blocked marks being the more obvious and extreme forms of restrictions.
Tarifs as Root of Evils ists have been fond the fact that preference notably the Ottawa Agreements which some claim to have 3 the "tariff war," have entirely been responsible for ents, Similarly Japanese apologists the Manchoukuo and China "that against amounting in some to marked discrimination, if not entirely fapan's ambitions for a
hough the difference between Ger-nee area of ber own. and Japanese capacity, and East Asian and Central European condi-ere most marked. Tokyo has some indication already of ug German methods in many One of the more important Wong Zai-pao, a former servant employed by the Henningsen Produce Company on The Bund, wes sentenced to eight years' imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court charged with instigating and committing a robbery committed at the office of the firm on the night of December 23. He was also deprived of his civil rights for the same period.
Chou Ah-ting, a carpenter, who was accused of plotting the robbery a few days prior to the actual holdup, and a woman who had received $30 from the convicted man after the robbery were found not guilty of charges of preparing robbery and receiving stolen property. Three others were released without being charged.
"The sentenced servant had been employed for only two months by the firm and for some time during his employment he had been sleeping inside the firm which fact enabled him to learn where the money was put After his dismissal last summer, Wong conspired with his loafer friends to commit the crime.
Six men broke into the firm while Wong stood outside to maintain a guard. The men made off with $2,607 and before escaping they roped the clerks. So far the police have recovered only a small part of the stolen money.
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