Even with such special privileges, "hose concerns are expected to receive severe setback if the Yangtze is opened to general traffic, says the Japan Times," as Chinese and third-power industries and traders in the Yangtze valley have the advantages of cig capital, long tradition and a firm foothold.
Hence it is being urged that the japanese concerns should be merged into a strong special corporation, with a large capital supplied by the Japanese Government and powerful Japanese interests, to exercise control over the various Japanese industrial and commercial establishments /in the Occupied areas in China 19 enable them to meet such competition, In connection with this plan to monopolize Central China exports, a Sino-Japanese Hemp (Ramie) Corporation is planned, and a financing syndicate, composed of the principal banks in Japan, is being formed to make a loan of Y.25,000,000 to the parent concern, the Central China Development Corporation,
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