The Archive · 1923

Thd Outrageous Boycott

Since May 9, the day observed here for "China's Shame" on account of the Twenty-one Demands, the students have searched al] incoming steamers for Japanese goods. Day and night, wearing badges or. carrying lanterns suit-lably inscribed, they throng the j Wharf making much trouble for travellers as well as officials. Ignorant_of English they seem fo have the impression that all goods not stamped with Chinese charac-{ters must be of Japanese origin. Two foreign ladies taking a quiet walk along the river bank were called upon by a group of students to see whether the goods they were! busily emptying into the Yangtze were really Japanese. Another day the contracter constructing a mis-

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