The nature of this meeting did not conform with the public announcements. Newspaper corre: Pondents dropped in at the National Garden Saturday last expecting to secure some fine notes for their papers, but instead of hearing Jai attacked in ruthless fashion, they listened to an interesting discus-economic conditions in the Taishan District, and learned of the terrible suffering that would result if the government carried out its plan to establish a likin station there. In a word, those who secured the permit to hold this meeting lew false colours, knowing full well that they would' not be "granted perlision if they let it be known ther their purpose was to gather ssu) port in opposition to a government scheme. Not a word about Japan or Shantunye was heard from ginning to end, Trade Necessarily Affected It stands to reason that trade has been affected considerably by all th: propaganda; that is to say, most have either canceled orders J
Japanese goods of have asked that shipments be held up for time. "Yet there have been no attempts to seize such goods, and while the threat of a boycott is Frequently teard, no boycott organization has been formed. Tt interesting to note that practically every speaker who had a part in one another of last week's meetings favoured a boycott, but not at the Present time. They pointed to the fact that the last anti-Japanese boycott was not effective, and the next ime it must be gone at with a will, and it must not be possible for mer chants to get Japanese goods by the payment of a "squeeze." But at this time, it is impracticable to launch such' a boseott. For one thing, the Northern" expedition should occupy the entire thought of the motion, and success cannot be
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