TRADE WITH MALAYA
ATTEMPT AT RESUMPTION JAPANESE BUSINESS INTERESTS SINGAPORE, May 26. Japanese business interests are quietly striving to re-establish contacts in Malaya, says the AAP Reuter correspondent. Several Singapore firms last week received letters from Japanese companies seeking orders. Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. after pointing out that “ more than a year has elapsed since the doves of peace came back with eternal spring.” says in a from Tokio: “ Business circles here are hoping for the earliest possible revival of international trade.” Kanematsu and Co. Ltd., in another letter, says: “ We fortunately emerged from the war almost intact materially, with little loss of uersonnel. and are carrying on business as actively as before without being handicapped by post-war restrictions.” The correspondent says the Britishrun Singapore Chamber of Commerce declared emphatically that it would not trade with the Japanese. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce, on the other hand, said it could see no reason why it should not.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26472, 28 May 1947, Page 5
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