JAPAN & BRITAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1933, Page 2

JAPAN & BRITAIN

RELATIONS STRAINED. CONTROVERSY OVER TRADE. LONDON, June 21. Quoting the opinion of distinguished Englishmen in Tokio that AngloJapanese relations have started on the course that Anglo-German relations took at the beginning of the century and feeling has never been so strained, 'Mr Ward Price, the. special correspondent of the Daily Mail in Japan, asks why Britain and Japan should be heading for a quarrel Mr Price says the Japanese blame Britain’s economic blockade, while Britons accuse the Japanese of unfair competition. The Japanese believe that as the result of Ottawa Britain sner me Domin'ons mean to exclude Japanese exports from the Empire and cite the abrogation of the In do-Japanese trade treaty. The Japanese deo'.are that the British policy is unfriendly—prohibiting Japanese migration to the colonies anu Dominions, and barring Japanese good,by tariffs, . Mr Price admits the reality or the menace of Japanese competition, but urges that it is useless to criticise Japanese workers for being content with low pay and a simpler standard of living. An economic fight means terrible hammering on both sides. Britain, says the writer, ought to preserve friendship with Japan and seek a settlement by negotiation. If she wants to got Japan out of the Empire and foreign markets, she ought 10 assist her to reach her natural market in China, from which she lias been excluded by the boycott and civil war. A revival of the purchasing power ol China’s millions would absorb Japanese exports.