Singapore, Jan. 4.
Confiseating a poster warning Chinese against dealing in Japanese foods, an Indian constable on duty. in Singapore took it to the police Station. On his return he was set upon by Chinese and injured about he face and chest. Four Chinese were arrested and charged with rioting.
Largely due to the unofictal Chinese boycott, imports into Malaya from Japan' have been declining steadily.
Imports from Japan during November were worth only about £205,000, compared with the July figure, before the Sino-Japanese war, of £575,000.
The gross foreign trade of Malaya Jaopp. by £1,125,000 compared wit JOctober and by £5,000,000 compared with April, the highest month of the year. The decline is attributed mainly to a heavy drop in tin shipments, combined with a decline in the average price of tin, and also to falls in the return' from rubber.
'November imports were worth £6,822,000 and exports £7,709,000, compared with October toials' of 6,800,000 and £9,163.000.
'The total trade' for the eleven months to the end*of November ts, however, £55,800,000 more than the corresponding period last year, and if December trad.: is maintained, the 1937 total will be the highest ince 1990.—Reuter.
Tokyo: Jan. 16, On the understanding' that he con retain the presidency of the huge Japanese Steel Corporation, Mr. Hachisaburo Hirao, well-known buslness leader and formerly Minister the: Department of Education, hat informally accepted "the post the new regime at Peiping, which was formally inaugurated on December 14.
Seventy-one years of age, Mr. Hirao fs a director of numerous concerns including the Kawasaki Dockyard Tientsin Customs Duties to be Decreased Osaka, Jan, 16, Reduction in import duties by the maritime customs at Tientsin will be put into effect shortly, was reliably reported terday. A decrease of from 30 to 60 per cent. to amend "discriminatory tariffs" on Japanese imports was expected to be' ordered—Domel. as Big Customer Company, the Tokyo Marine and Fire Singapore, Jax. 11.
Insurance Cotipany, and the Tokyo 'The it-mense volume' of United Salvage Company. In 1935 he went States pu.shases In British Malaya was discussed by Mr. Monnett B. fon an economic mission to Brazil Reuter.
Davis, U.S. consul-general In Singa-Amalgamation pore, ism spoach to business men here, Despite the comparative small Peiping, Jan. 1 to ness of the country, British Malaya Definite steps were taken to-day 1996 came fourth in exports to speed up preparations for the am: the United States with a volume of sam ation of the East Hopei Anti-Comintern Autonomous Government 147,800,000. "Imports from the with the. "Provisional Chinese Gov-United States were only $4,500,000.
The Malaya's huge ernment" lenders of the new regime Union of the two regimes is ex: pected to be effected by the and of jand_ more than
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