JAPANESE TRADE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 146, 15 March 1919, Page 7

JAPANESE TRADE

CAPTURING MARKETS WARNING TO AUSTRALASIA Sydney, March 11. Tho Rev. Mr. Bnseiey. general secretary of the Church Missionary Society, who has returned alter n six months visit to the East, sounds a note of warning regarding Japanese triido and other developments. Japan- is making aiuazing' strides .'and. occupies, a .position ot dominating -influence commercially and politically in. the East. The whole conntry is u'hivo of industry, and factories aro fioing up everywhere There is bard' ly an article of commerce which tho Japanese are not now making. They are seeking new openings in trade the world over. The commercial nenetration of China and India by tho Japanese manufacturers is something to marvel at. She is capturing markets ■ wholesale. • Australasia is destined to biow. much more about Japan before it is many years older. Jlr. Bazeley found a great deal of unrest everywhere in the East against Australia's exclusion policy, and predicts that it will soon be necessary to ameliorate this policy in certain directions.—l'rcss Assn. WOMEN EMPLOYEDTN INDUSTRIES London,-March 12. The Board of Trade states that tho number of . women in Britain employed in industries, excluding domestic service, in' .luly, 1911, was 3,276,000, and in April, I'JiS, the number was 4,808,000, of which number LoIG.OOO directly replaced males, The percentage of females to the total workers employed in April, 1918, was 37 per cent., compared with 24 per cent, in 191-I.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.