Hanoi, Feb, 20.
{In concert with British and Ameri~ can Interests in Indo-China, French firms are making efforts to boycott Japanese concerns in order checkmate the possible Japanese Thal peace talks in Tokyo, Japanese report, Aside from the conclusion of the French Indo-China-British Economic Agreement designed to bring about closer economic tle between the two countries, the French Indo-China Government on last Sunday. issued an ordinance establishing the Imports Control Guild, which will exclude Sapanese firms in import business, French firms recently threatened Annamite businessmen who deal with the Japanese by suspending transac~ tions with them, Furthermore, it Is, understood that French firms are planning to monopolize rubber industry by setting up a rubber export control union. the reports state—
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