Endeavour to Prevent Chinese Placing Money in Foreign Banks or Insuring with {Foreign Companies July 7 saw the inauguration of the First National Products Promotion Week, when, in addition to an exhibition of local manufactures at the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, a navy aeroplane flew over the city and distributed handbills appropriate to the occasion. Addresses were given at various points in the city by. members of the committee and prominent Kuomintang leaders, while posters and cartoons urging the people to support local industries were placarded on trams, outside shops, and in other! vantage points. Many places flew the Nationalist flag, while a process sion of decorated motor ears was another means of drawing the ublic's attention to the occasion.
Over a thousand persons were present at the opening of the exhibition of the Chamber of Commerce on July 7, and amongst those to be seen were Gen. Chang Ting-fan, Mayor of Greater Shanghai; Gen. Chien Ta-chun, Gendarmerie Commissioner; Col. Tai Shih-fu, chief of the Bureau of Public Safety; Mr. S. S. Fung, chairman of the General Chamber of Commerce; and representatives from the various, chambers of commerce and other through foreign offices, and other such practices, Gen. Chang said, should be discontinued.
Speeches were also made by Gen, Chien, Mr, S. S. Fung. and others emphasizing the activities of the committee for the boycott of foreign goods and the urgency of fostering the use of national goods.
The following slogans were shouted out in the meeting:
(1) The National Products, Encouraging Movement is a national salvation movement!
(2) No Chinese should encourage the use of foreign goods!
(8) It is the duty of the people of the whole nation to support national products!
(4) To foster the production of national products is the only means of saving our country from being financially oppressed!
(5) Labourers must work hard to improve the quality of national products!
(6) Merchants must make every endeavour to push the sale of national products: public must do use national pro-local organizations.
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