After lunch the three of us went to the main ofice, from where I was to go out to visit the ce-operative shop for making small river boats. On'the way my two guides showed me Japanese goods in the local stores, such as enamelware, silk stockings, cation towelling, soap and matches, all of which had penetrated into this for-away district under Chinese or ther trade marks, The things were cheap, and since people had come to depend on them, their buying habits had become fixed. One of the hard-tst tasks, a8 Mr, Lee pointed out, was to educate the people into not buying Japanese products and thus supporting the war against their own land and livelihoods: it_was the argument pretty generally that to use cheaper Japanese articles allowed more money to. go for supporting the Chinese cause, for the people did not under. Sand that they themselves could
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