JAPANESE EFFORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 9

JAPANESE EFFORTS

* — WOOL MONOPOLY

REPORTS FROM CHINA

EXCLUSIQNOF BRITISH

BUYERS

{United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received April 7, noon.) LONDON, April 6. The Australian Associated Press learns that the Prime Minister has asked the British Ambassador in China to investigate reports that the Japanese in North China are establishing: ■ a wool monopoly in connection with wool produced in Mongolia, Hsinffhiang, and Kansu, excluding British buyers and interfering with free trade in wool. Japanese activities are causing considerable alarm in the wool, trade.- • Sir J. S. Wardlaw-Milne, M.P., informed the Australian Associated Press that the Japanese have ordered all Chinese merchants to register their stocks with the Japanese, who sealed them and subsequently bought up and shipped the whole lot at their own priqes. It is now reported that a Japanese organisation is being formed to monopolise the entire production of wool from. Inner Mongolia and. North-west-ern China.