To the Editor of the "NowH-Cwina DarLy News.'
Sm—I read a letter in your correspondence column the other day, from a Indy correspondent, complaining that the had been refused to be served with British goods in the Wing On store. sue of the 28th instant, received here to-day, under the caption of "Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Boycott," I read Messrs. Sincere and Wing 01 reply to the above mentioned letter. The former may mean anything or nothing, while the latter is a little more conciliatory, bat that is about As a British subject, may I ask, through the publicity of your columns, if there is any reason why: British people should make a rush for Chinese stores to buy goods which they can purchase from any British store in Shang! Hav these purchasers no pride; no respect for their flag; no respect for their national prestige; in much sympathy with the so-called boycott of British goods, that immediately the strike—at least the shop strike—is called "off" they immediately rush to the. Wing On o¢ ithe Sincere store and take the chance of being refused service, because they asked for goods of British. make.—Why put money in the, pockets of shopkeepers such as these? Beat them with their own weapons and declare a strike on their stores, thereby supporting the foreign stores, who, when they get the support of the people, will be given a chance to meet the keenest competition.
I am a Shanghai resident and when this boycott started I made my mind up that I would not spend one single cash in Chinese stores such as these, and feel that the time has come when a concented effort on behalf of the British people was needed, and needed badly, to stand by and for each other. Know that the argument will be put forward that things are more cost: ly in the foreign stores. That may be at first, but, I don't think it would do any of us any harm to do with a little less and back up our' own concerns. Personally, I've tried it and found it to be no loss, fact it has been a gain, especially where the "compradore" isco. cerned.
There is a well-known saying which is worthy of a place in our hearts and minds at the presen! time, which United stand, Enclosing my card, Tam, ete, Peitaiho, July 90, 1325.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.