The Jewish population of Harbin is daily growing more angry with the policy of Hitler in Germany. Almost all large importing firms in the town have ordered their correspondents in Germany to refuse further business with that country and request manufacturers not to send samples as they have not the slightest intention of making further purchases of German goods.
To such an extent has the boycott against German goods developed in Harbin that it is now almost impossible to purchase German patent medicines in the chemist shops as most of these shops belong to Jewish owners, though there are a few owned by Germans.
Letters have been received from Lodz manufacturers requesting Harbin firms to open their letter of credit for goods in Poland or London, instead of Hamburg, and stating that all shipments of goods manufactured by the large Jewish cloth factories of Lodz and vicinity will in future not be sent across Germany by way of Hamburg to the Far East but will be forwarded by a British or Italian route so as to prevent goods being shipped in German vessels.
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