Besides actively interfering with the trade of Japanese merchants, agitators are circulating mendacious reports that the Chinese in Japan are being maltreated by the Japanese authorities. For ex. ample. Mr, Chung Wing-kong, head of the "Bureau of Overseas Chinese Affairs", is said to be in receipt of fa report from the representatives the Chinese Ca-operative Association in Japan to the effect that about 150 Chinese workers eniployed in various factories in a "certain tows" were dismissed from servic? shortly after the occurrence of the Tainan incident, and it ix alleged that pressure had been exerted by the Japanese Government to bring this about. 'The report goes on to say that "every evening there men jate cxpused to the Jeers and taunts of the public" and that instead of giving them proper protection, the police "encourage the coarser' ments of the public to add to the sufferings of the men.
All merchants in Japanese g00 are now discussing ways and means to combat the imposition of the 30 per cent. "tax" levied by the Committee for the Severance of Economic Relations with Japan. The "tax" is levied ostensibly for the purpose of promoting native industries, but the merchants are asking in what way the Committee are going to achieve this laudable object. The merchants have re-Peatedly appealed to the authorities to have the imposition eancelled, but the latter have never paid serious attention to the merchants? appeal.
The impression is now given that. the authorities have in some manner become subservient to' the wishes of the boycott committees functioning hereabouts ants declare they ate willing at all times to further" the interests: of the: nation, bit affirm that illegal tax imposed upon imported
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