Expectations of Better Yield are exhausted, hurried to Shanghai and bought "more. They expect higher prices when certain. specific goods become scarce. That, of is business and involves This Year Serious Eifort Against Goods was Ove OWN ConMESPONDENT
The actual effort to suppress Wusih, May 18, There has been a good deal of doubt in the minely of silk dealers whether it is xafo to open the stations for buying cocoons; but some hardy souls are turning up do #0, though not in the usual num= bers." This will mean legs competition and £0 lower prices to the farmer. It is estimated that there an 80 per cent, exp this year, which is considered better than the average. The silk worms are even now beginning to spi their cocoons and if the weather is favourable in these next few critical days, the yield will be good.
Merchants' Eye for Main Chance The effort to make the public take up. the antidapanese movement, which was intensive" lust week, seems to have died down consider ably. It seems that there have been so many and various "anti" movements of late that a new one Japanese goods is more serious than the mero propaganda. lore there tare bodies of young men who are coing around, entering hops suspected of having stocks of the prescribed gonds, and carrying off what they find. The greatest suf forers have been the silk shops. The average merchant in Wusih is much Soames Forsyte, he believes in property. This outrageous invasion of the fundamental right of a democratic citizen to inviolability of house and shop has roused opposition. Yesterday, afternoon the Chamber of Commerce met with the representatives of the anti-Japanese committee and discussed ways of approaching 2 more just settlement. For righteous indijgnation they" express sympathy. To the unauthorized removal of property this Chamber of Commerce is opposed. is hard to get started, Merchants who deal in.foreixn goods are well stocked with Japanese merchandise and the prohibition of the sale of what they have bought and would be them. It is rumoured that cert foreseeing the boycott and ment lack of Japanese goods rmurket when present stocks Texsueams have been sent to the Nationalist Government by the Political Council at the War Front stating, that there is danger of the Yellow River overflowing and breaking its dykes. The Govern iment is requested to send engineers to repair the dykes and money for the relief of the districts which already have been flooded.
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