Not only are the pickets more than active in str 1g to prolong the boycott of Japanese goods but they are busily engaged in intimidating the Chines servants of Japanese residents 10 leaving their service. The attitude of the agitators is such at the present time that the Japanese residents afraid to permit their children to ko to school unescorted.
The whole thing has come to this, that, instead of there being any improvement in the state of affairs in sympathy with the friendly nature of the Sino-Japanese negotiations at Nanking, the situation in this province is decidedly worse, and the Japanese consular officials declare themselves at a loss as to
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