DUTY ON COTTON GOODS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 13 June 1933, Page 5

DUTY ON COTTON GOODS

“AGAINST INDIA’S WISHES”

DECLARATION BY JAPAN.

RESENTMENT AT CALCUTTA

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(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph

Copyright.) Received 11.45 a.m. to-day

KOBE, June 12. A unanimous decision was assured to-day by (Japanese cotton spinners in the boycott of Indian cotton. AntiBritish." 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 an alien yoke. The Foreign Office declares "that world peace is jeopardised. A Calcutta message says that insinuations by Mr Miyaki, Consul-Gen-eral for Japan in India, that tne ‘ ‘underlying motive” for increased tariffs against imported Japanese piece goods is that Britain should regain what she lost by 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 being brought to complete ruination by Japanese dumping, a Calcutta newspaper says: “The propaganda 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. It is designed to create ill-will between Lancashire and India and to prove that Lancashire and not Japan is the enemy oi Indian industrialism.’ ’

DENIAL OF DUMPING.

■CONFERENCE SUGGESTED

■LONDON, June 12

•Leading Japanese bankers and industrialists in a letter to the “Daily Mail” deny dumping but admit that as Japanese labour costs are so low it would take the highest duties to exclude Japan’s goods. They express the fear, however, that the growing Anglo-Japanese competition will imperil good relations. Therefore the industrialists and .business men of the two countries should meet and ’seek a mitigation of competition, without harming the industrial or commercial interests of either country.