Deserving special mention is that, on this occasion the extremists sand workers take no active part in the boycott. All the activities are conducted by merchants who are backed up, by the Provincial Kuomintang.
cerns that a good number of the Government officials are giving their moral support to this movement attested by the fact that no into ference is made against the action of the anti-Japan committee. Some conservative elements do not favoitr such agitations and have already sabled to Marshal Li Chi-sen in Nanking asking what steps should be taken in this matter, Intended as Object Lesion 1
An_ influential member of the anti-Japan committee informs your correspondent that the boycott will serve as an object lesson to the disastrous policies of the Japanese militarists. This gentleman spoke market in order to make room for with sine emotion and pointed to their own products, Still others be-Japan's "arrogance" in refusing to Move that some unscrupulous, regard the Commercial Treaty with, merchants start the uproar and make China as abrogated," "There is no money out of squeezing Japanese indication that Japan has changed tradesman by offering to import] her policy to Chin this their merehanc 5 to Canton by a patriotic Chinese, round about way.
Whatever may be! she continues to browbeat China, the the motive behind the boycott, this boycott must go on. Japan has to economic coercion is on, causing no deperkl on China as a market for lo loss of sleep to those in Canton her inferior goods while we can got and Hongkong who deal in Japanese along very well without any trade relations with the Island Empii The Committee is at the same time Pickets Very Active devising ways and means to The Committee of encourage the consumption of homo Economic Relations with Japan has made goods, It has organized pto-Just closed registration of those Paganda corps' to lecture to the Japanese goods in Canton which public urging them to buy Chinese were imported prior to the beginning made products, How far this cam-of the boycott and has now engaged eign will be a success remains to be pickets to search for enemy goods. seen, as native producers are unable They are stationed at the steamship to mest the demand for certain wharves and pay special attention t 0 necessities such as cotton goods, small boats which may have beet ping, needles and other commodities hired to smuggle in the prohibited that' are indispensable to a house= goods. In case the goods are store hold. at warehouses, these pickets are to Vary few Japanese goods are cargoes are brought shipped to Canton from this port of the This picketing this week and mesh of them are has been going on for about ten stored up in local warehouses a days. soon as they arrive from Kobe and The search has yielded results. Yokohama, The situation is not Hawkers are not allowed to selli very serious but may continue for Japanese goods. In a store that] some time to come, orders this week which might have gone to Japanese concerns. They ye that it is safe to place more erders with British companies at Home in view of the cordial relation ship between Great Britain and Na-Honalist China especially between Hongkong and Canton. They look forward to the settlement of the Nanking incident as a forerunner British trade in South, Chi
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