Canton, Sept. 17. threats of an anti-British boscott have not been taken very seriously by most merchants, either Chinese or foreign, but. an anti-British propagandist society has got right ahead with its. prepara fons, $s working among. the shop: keepers, trying to induce them Fetnain from selling British goods, and even has selected men for its Bins fas have not gone oat in'serch ket corps. However, the pic
of goods and there has not been single seizure of in the case of the Japanese Doycott which still is in force and going strong, in the inception the government was behind the move~ ments, and was, in fact, the originator of it." Hardly had start been made than the govern tment thought it judicious to retire from active participation, the ball having been set rolling, and to Girect the show from the wings rather than to stand out boldly behing the footlights. So the boycott society, which had been established by government agencies, was ordered to be abolished, Those whose names are heard these days in connection with the movement to prevent the entry into Canton of Bi tish goods nearly all are member of the Hongkong-Canton strike organization, Waving a British flag in front of one of these radicals in like shaking a red flag in the face of a mad bull, and it cannot des doubted that, unless kept in check by the authori strikers will go pretty far before they finish,
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