Bristle Trade Taken Qut Of Foreigners' Hands Dairen, June 21.
Yet one more form of control is to he added to the lengthy list which Manchoukuo has introduced since its inception. This time it is to be of the bristle industry, which up to the present has remained largely in the hands of foreign companies.
Control will be carried out through a company, the chief shareholder in which is to be the Mitsui Busseh Kaisha. Bristle exports from Man: churia are now valued at around $10,000,000 annually. The object of this control is stated to be for increasing the export of this article.
Officials of the Mitsui concern believe that the aim of the company will be to export bristles direct instead of as at the present time through foreign dealers in the Tientsin district.—Reuter.
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