Japan's tobacco industry has failed to keep in step with other Japanese enterprises that have followed the Japanese military progress into Central China, the "Tairiku Shimpo" alleged yesterday. Regret at this development, the paper said, was being expressed-among local Japanese tobacco dealers.
Attributing this phenomenon to the inferior quality of the tobacco itself and the unattractive designs en packages and tins, the paper said that even people in Japanese-occupied zones, including the Hongkew Japanese community, relish the fine quality of foreign brands of cigarettes in preference to the made-in-Japan products, Only a microscopic group of smokers enjoy Japanese tobacco, the daily remarked, in pointing out that 90 per cent. of local Japanese cigarettes are consumed by the Japanese Military and Navy, while the remaining 10 per cent. are purchased by civilian smokers.
Cheapness is no advantage to the Japanese cigarettes, the paper commented, as coolies and rickshaw-pullers prefer Chinese-made cigarettes, Japanese who are accustomed to the taste of foreign brands of cigarettes are reluctant to follow the patriotic urge to purchase home-products when it comes to cigarettes, according to the Japanese daily.
"He would be a man of very rare taste who would want to smoke Japanese cigarettes when other equally cheap and finer cigarettes can be obtained," the "Tairiku Shimpo" declared Jews Lose Rumanian Citizenship Bucharest, Mar. 1, No less than 31,000 Jews have been deprived of Rumanian citizenship during the past three months, it was ammounced here last night. It is declared that a still greater number of Jews will be deprived of the right te citizenship by March 31—Trans-Ocean. vehicles, and will be posted in prominent places on the streets, which will be gaily beflagged with Rising Sun and Five-Barred ensigns, the dailies stated.
Slogans will be printed on theatre tickets, dime-a-dance tickets, and on wrappers of articles sold in stores The two local Japanese newspapers will distribute special editions on Friday, the Japanese press reported Premier to Broadcast Tokyo, Mar. 1
The Premier, Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, will broadcast an address extolling the "new order" move-
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