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¶ Japan was denounced by members from cotton-weaving constituencies for working successfully today the following scheme, in cahoots with British cotton printers: During the past three years British imports of Japanese unprinted bleached cotton cloth leaped up from 200,000 yards to 20,000,000 yards. These were printed in British plants, shipped to the Dominions, Crown Colonies and India as "British" (which technically under British law they are, because "finished" in the Kingdom), and sold under the benefits of Imperial preference to British subjects at prices which undercut not only British woven and British printed cloth of similar quality, but even Japanese woven and Japanese printed cloth, which cannot benefit from Imperial preference.
Boiling mad at this Japanese-British sharp practice, M.P.'s demanded that His Majesty's Government bring in a bill to deprive of Imperial preference any cloth which is not British-woven-from-British- made-thread-and-British-finished.
*The Military Intelligence, Naval Intelligence and Secret Intelligence services of His Majesty's Government are separate. Under a Foreign Office rule, if an official paper is found to contain references to their doings, that paper is destroyed and a new one made and entered. Last week the British Embassy in Washington officially and the U. S. State Department informally denied that Sir Robert Vansittart is Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, affirmed that they do not know who is.