AUSTRALIAN TARIFFS
JAPAN REFUSES OFFER. [BY CABLE—-PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.J TOKIO, June 17. M. Arnau, Foreign Office spokesman, stated: “We are in communication with M. Murai, our Australian ConsulGeneral, in .regard to Sir Henry Gullett’s latest offer to apply intermediate tariffs to Japanese goods, which offer we regard as being inadequate. Our attitude has already been clearly defined. Owing to Australia’s drastic measures, we are obliged to protect our trade by invoking the but if the Australians return to the status quo ante, and are ready to talk on the same footing, we. are quite ready to talk to them.” LATER. The Domei learns that Australia’s reply, received this afternoon, was unsatisfactory, upon, which*,the official conference decided to* submit the invocation of the trade protection law to Cabinet, which is expected to obtain the Imperial Sanction to enforce it on Friday.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 June 1936, Page 7
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