TRADE-NOT WAR
JAPAN'S ASPIRATIONS . Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright AUCKLAND, May 16. A vigorous denial of the suggestion that Japan was buying scrap metal iu New Zealand for us© in armaments was made by Captain S. Sayek, of the ship Mataram. He said the suggestion was unfair to his country. “ Guns and warships, what for?” he asked. “ Japan does not want war, although many people seem to think she does. We depend on industry for our living. We want to manufacture for ourselves and for export, and we are prepared to import wool, cotton, and other things we have not got. We want to live by industry, not by fighting,” he reiterated
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Evening Star, Issue 22031, 17 May 1935, Page 9
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110TRADE-NOT WAR Evening Star, Issue 22031, 17 May 1935, Page 9
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