TRADE THREAT.
BRITAIN IN FAR EAST.
Need for Better Shipping Stressed. JAPANESE SUFFERANCE. United Press Association. —Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) CANBERRA, this day. In addition to measures which the Commonwealth Government proposes to take for the protection of British shipping in the Tasman, plans for safeguarding shipping trading to the East are receiving consideration. This, assurance was given by Mr. Lyons in tlie House of Representatives, replying to a question by Mr. Lawson, who said that British . shipping linos trading between Australia and the East had existed only on sufferance of Japanese interests. According to a London message, the "Daily Mail" states that Viscount Rothermere, cabling from Hongkong, urges assistance to British shipping to compete with the faster German and Japanese vessels. He suggests that British 25-knot liners and 15-knot cargo boats should have the Suez Canal dues returned from the British income on Suez Canal shares. Unless. British shipping was aided the Chinese and Japanese' markets would disappear' Within five years.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 253, 24 October 1936, Page 9
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