At the end of July, for three days bands of pickets went about towa having again grown and spread, Tabour unions in the province are rapidly reviving, eripp'ing indasing stores and shops and noting tries and communications, Em the quantities of Japanese wares ployees of the Chu-Ping Railway carried. It had been declared ey have declared a strike and the agi-the Boycott Committee that the: woull'be three more dass of ths tatier ten: xtend the porce, "On August 4, the mil ut the searching of business houses tary authorities at Changsha stopped abruptly on the afternoon of July 31 and since then the merchants have been left in peace.
The pickets have been employe? more as a means of impressing certain things on the business men of Canton than anything else. In no instance have goods been taken out of the shops, not a single fin: has been assessed. Nay more, the pickets have only made a mental note of the number of bolts and dered the execution of Peng Kung-teh, @ notorious Communist leader.
Reports to hand indicate 1 the "Red have been definitel driven out of Pingkiang and Chen-where the Communists about two weeks attempted to tablish their stronghold. The troops of the 6th Division under eral Hwang Chung 3 Chi are now in control of dozens of boxes of Japanese pro-duets carried in stock; they have not thought it worth while to commit their findings to writing. It has been interesting, however, -to note the way the various merchants [ave received the pickets, and the the pickets have responded 19 the treatment accorded them by different merchants. Whenever 'a shop keeper has thrown wide open his doors and invited the' boycott workers to come right in and look around for themselves, the examinntion has been most superficial and casual in character. Stubbornness on the part of the proprietor, however, has culminated in osbtreperonsness on the part of the pickets. Half an hour or more instead of a few minutes has been devoted by the search party to its work, ant bundles and bales and boxes have been mixed up and turned upside down and thrown helter-skelter. All the while this searching has been on, the leader of the pickets has delivered a lecture to the shopkeeper on the severity of his offence in opposing the wishes of the Government, and obstructing the work Boycott Com-
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