Tokyo, Apr. 5.
Mr, Fu Siao-en, Mayor of the Greater Shanghai Special Municipal ity, and Mrs, Fu, who are attending conference of mayors here, gave dinner Jast evening for relatives of the late Sergeant Sojuro Tokutani, of the Japanese gendarmerie in. Shange hai, who was killed while protecting Mayer Pu from assassins on November 29 lust year in front of the Municipality Building at the Civie Centre shanghai.
'Guests at the dinner were Mr. Jisaburo Ima and Mrs, Imai, who is sister of Sergeant 'Tokutani, and Mr, Tko Tokutani, cousin of the slain and also a' gendarmerie ser Tokyo, Apr. 9.
An, appeal to the Japanese Govern ment {o overhaul its "short-sighted" Jmeasure for controlling industry has been made by Mr. Shingo Tsuda, president of Japan's largest cotton business, the Kanegafuchi Spinning Company.
"Japan's cotton textile industry, he says, has been plunged into confusion since the outbreak. of the current Sino-Japanese hostilities because of the various financial control measures taken by the Government, such as restriction on domestic consumption cotton-goods, the export-import Tink system, the ticket rationing system for cotton yarn distribution, and restriction on shipments to the yen-bloc areas Manchuria and North China. Moreover, he adds, local cotton interests have had to suffer from the prevailing shortage of labour.
Although such a state of affairs is quite unavoidable as a temporary Dhenomenon in wartime, all these control measures, he con! nes, have hot always been enforced effectively and smoothly. Under the ink system, for instance, Japanese exports of grey cloth alone have naturally been promoted.
'SUN worse, he goes on. foreign traders, taking advantage of the re gulations providing for compulsory. exportation ithin a definite period of months, hammered down the prices of Japanese cotton piece-goods. The Festilt. was that cotton goods exports declined precipitously last year in terms of value.
Japan's cotton textile exports in 1938 totaled 2,180,000,000 square yard valued at ¥.404,000.000 a8 agains 2,640,000,000 as against 10,000,000 square yards and. ¥.573,000,000 in 1937, representing declines by 464 (000,000 square yards and ¥.169,000,000.
The most important reasons for this, Mr. Tsuda states, are the following? the restriction of raw cotton imports and the subsequent shortage of cotton, the boycott by Chinese resid! fents abroad against Japanese goods, the expulsion "by Great Britain of Japanese goods from her economic bloc, the recent development of the cotton industry in British India, and the decline of the purchasing power primary producing countries. the world—Reuter,
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