BITTER FEELING
JAPANESE DEMANDS IMPOSITION OF COTTON DUTIES WARNING TO BRITAIN (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, June 26. Captain Humphreys-Davis, of Auckland, returned to-day from Japan. He said that at present the whole nation was very bitter against the British because of the imposition of cotton duties in India which they consider were designed to curtail Japanese trade They are also bitter about the Lytton report. He referred to the Japanese demand for equality in naval power and the effect which it would have on Britain. He asserted it was known, that the Japanese were charting the waters in the vicinity of Australia and that Japan envisaged the possibility and probability of war and that the British Empire should be prepared.
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Southland Times, Issue 22052, 27 June 1933, Page 6
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121BITTER FEELING Southland Times, Issue 22052, 27 June 1933, Page 6
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