"The students are going too far," said a civil officer when interviewed on the boycott. '"Peacefully anyone is free to urge the public to buy or not to buy Japanese or any other goods, but by force—no! We have not interfered with the students because wd assumed that the movement would use pacific methods—but they ard going too far." He asserted, that the magistrate had instructed the local police to prevent the further use of violence on the part of thd students.
Such public sentiment as can bd registered here appears to bd sympathetic with the political motives of the boycott, but decidedly opposed to student violence. If the students persist in their use of force, it is predicted that they will not only sacrifice such public support og they have thus far acquired, but that the public may even sanction and applaud Japanesd retaliation.
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