Taking Cue from Canton: Trouble makers Breathing Fire nom Our Own CORRESPONDENT
Swatow, Oct, 20. waiting for a lead from Canton in My anticipation that Swatow was
the lifting of the boycott seems nov: likely to be fulfilled, and it is confidently expected that within a day' cor two the staffs of the Britis The coterie whose int in keeping the boycott going have been doing their utmost to prevent this, and their adje: t slaves the newapapera have been backing thera up. They have carefully abstained from publishing anything about the resumption of work in Canton, apparently nursing the delusion that they are the only channels of information; and they have not ceases day after day to publish the stuff supplied to them by their masters, find fulminate against the idea that there is anything more going f>r~ ward than a trifling change of policy which is going to make for more extensive and rigid, "severance of economic relations" than there has yet been.
'A Pugnactous Meeting They reported a representative meeting held last Friday to consider the new situation, at which there was such overflowing enthusiasm for the prosecution of the boycott as never was before, and one Inbour union after another declared that they would have no Uealings with British firms or goods
bers who did as "mai kuo tse" and would regard any, of their men (thieves that sell their country) and great them as stich—a sufficient ication that the reign "of intimidation ig not yet at an end. A Jarge committee was appointed at} this meeting to prepare proposals for the future prosecution of ths boycott in the lamented absence of the pickets, to report within three days.
But the three days are up, ant] no repr has appeared; per there has been a hint from offcialdom to go slow. Oficialdom is lying very low itt the matter; part Ty, perhaps, because it is pressingly concerned in these days with military affairs, and the question Whether its Tease of power here is fed; and. the Knowledge that not going to be rudely interrupt-
preoccupied with other affairs has no doubt made the wild men bolder than they might otherwise have been. Intimidation is being used to prevent people returning work, and threatening letters are fiying about; but there has been no delay in calling the attention of the Commissioner for Foreign -Affairs
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