The-iboyeotters did not have a chance so long as soldiers, members for the Merchants Protection Corps, and other" tolled along behind the coolies hired by the merchants to take their Japanese imports irom, the Customs examination shed their shops, but. this practice been brought to a halt, due to fact that the government has taken fu interest in the proceedings, and has sent guards from the Treasury Department to keep the coast clear of theee medtlesome protectors who Thave been in the pay of the store owners.
Repeatedly the General Chamber of Commerce has met and made proposals to the Boycott Committee, {ts main purpose being to effect a reduction in the amount of the fines be collected when roods. proven to be Japanese are brought into port and seized by the pickets, feauso the merchants were unwilling {o" moot the Boycott Committee halfway, nothing could be accom plished, but at last a plan that bhoy be workable and acceptable to ihe boycotters has been formulated loy the Chamber of Commercel Its proposal is. that no fines shall. Collected where the. imports were Purchased prior to May 80, for the Teninan affair did not take "place tuntit June, and hence these cannot Tooked upon as "enemy goods." Where commeditien were bargained for subsequent to May 80, but prior to July 1, 2 fine should be collected, but it should not be higher than ten cent. This is logical, since on Joly 1 the Kuomintang had not yet publicly given notice that Japanese freeds brought into Canton would hie subject to the payment of a fine, However, anyone" who purchased apanese goods at a date later than July 1, did so with his eyes open, fand should not complain because he jis compelled to part with a sum of money equivalent to 80 per cent, of the value of the imported mer-
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