JAPANESE IN CELEBES
ALARM IN BATAVIA tu <1 — SINGAPORE, July 22. —Concern is being felt in the Netherlands Indies at * Japanese pQiietration in the northern part of Cislobes. A new Japanese consulate at Menado, town of the Minahassa distr.ic,t r i|lf>.. north, lias, according' to the Java Bode, Batavia, no connection with the.; chain of Japanese Consulates in the Indies, and deals direct with Tokio. In theTyiinaliassa district, it-fadds, the Japanese- have gained a monopoly of the coconut plantation and fishing industries. ' They have even driven native" motor bus services off tlllr roads] and arc operating their own fafct ser-i vices. ' A Japanese buyer recently ..paid £35.000 for a Dutch rubber estate in Minahassa. The Java Bode says that .something will have to be done to stop the “symtematie invasion by the Japanese.” ‘ ' •'
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 80, 7 September 1938, Page 4
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133JAPANESE IN CELEBES Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 80, 7 September 1938, Page 4
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