“SCOTCH” FROM JAPAN
WHISKY BARRED BY CUSTOMS. A thousand cases of “Scotch whisky” —distilled, bottled, and labled in Japan —have reached Mombasa, Kenya, in a Japanese steamer. The landing price was only 7/- a casr Customs officers have refused its entry into the country on the ground that the whisky was incorrectly described. It is stated that Japan chose Kenya for the opening of a “whisky” offensive because every other kind of Japanese goods exported there had been completely successful in ousting corresponding British goods from the market.
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Southland Times, Issue 22317, 7 May 1934, Page 11
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88“SCOTCH” FROM JAPAN Southland Times, Issue 22317, 7 May 1934, Page 11
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