The Archive · 1928

Promotion of Boycott

Ata meeting attended by oicials, business men, Inbourers and otus dents it was' unanimously decided that a boycott of Japanese loods should be declared, but that the date for its enforcement, should be Jeff to the Nanking authorities to decide. Students, immediately after the meeting, paraded the streets, some distributing leaflets and others carrying banners with slogans such 'a8 "Down with Japanese Imperinl-

Gen. Chien Ta-chun, Commis sioner of Gendarmerie' for the Shanghai and Woosung Districts, and Gen, Chang Ting-fan, Mayor of Greater Shanghai, have issued 2 manifesto urging people to keep Im, and not to molest local Japan ese residents, After recounting the alleged crimes of the Jupanese at Tsinanfu, he continues:— people of China In their indignation End protest. "It-ix necessary, neverthe mcviliged nat with ood ira Teston. The citizens of the dise

outcome of neo! ly the Nation= mat remain quiet pending the lise Government nnd refrain from reprisals and injuring Japanese re. Shtonts of the district, lest Uiey" should tempt to take advantage of rash ac-Homo "In sevortance sith the Tnven of Kuomintang Pressing for Boycott "The Kuomintang has officially recommended to the Nationalist Government (according to the Chinese press) that economic relations with Japan should be severed forthwith, and various organizations in Nanking have telegraphed to Get Chiang Kai-shek urging him to: declare yar wu Japan. The Nation. alist War Council has, however, sted a proclama exhorts the po ter in the hands of the Nation-lint Government.

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