JAPANESE GOODS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21979, 14 June 1933, Page 7

JAPANESE GOODS

INSINUATIONS RESENTED ILL-ADVISED PROPAGANDA . (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) CALCUTTA, June 12. The insinuations by Mr Miyake (Con-sul-ge. ■'ral for Japan in India) that the “ underlying motive ” for increased tariffs against imported Japanese piece goods is that Britain should regain what she lost by the boycott, and that the whole business was engineered in the interests of Manchester, are strongly resented. After surveying the Indian piece goods industry, which was brought to complete ruination by Japanese dumping, the Calcutta Englishman says: “The propaganda which is being carried on by the_ Japanese authorities in India is ill-advised, and would not be tolerated except in such an easy-going Empire as the British Commonwealth. It is designed to create ill-will between Lancashire and India, and to prove that Lancashire and not Japan is the enemy of Indian industrialism.”

ANTI-BRITISH FEELING

BOYCOTT OF INDIAN COTTON.

KOBE, June 12. A unanimous decision was assured today of a Japanese cotton spinners’ boycott of Indian cotton.

Anti-British propaganda is increasing, the general declaration being that the duties were forced by the British Government against Indian wishes. Publicists discuss the advisability of assisting Indian emancipation from the alien yoke. The Foreign Office declares that world peace is jeopardised.