Japanese circles are perturbed by' the report that the Central Party Headquarters of the Kuomintang on August 9 issued instructions to recommence the boycott movement against Japan, Although at present there are no outward signs of such 14 boycott being generally enforced, Japanese naturally wonder what causes behind such a movement can be. No public announcement any such order has been made and is quite possible that it we without due authorizat In certain circles it is suggested [that the boycott order was intended a threat to Japan to intimidate the Japanese so that large numbers Japanese troops will not be sent to Manchuria and Kore The Shanghai "Nichi Nichi" Publishes the following report:—For about three weeks we have been receiving numerous complaints from our subscribers regarding the non-delivery of our paper. An tion was made and it was discovered that the local Post Office had placed a ban on our paper. We have not received any official complaints from the Chinese author regarding reports appearing in aper. Among the letters complaining of non-delivery were found several from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Communica~ tions, the General Staff of the War Ofice, the Political Training Bureau of the Garrison Headquarters, ete.
Nanking. Our representative called on the Postal Commissioner yesterday and, to his great astonishment, he was informed that the Shanghai "Nichi Niche" had been detained by order of the local Garrison Commissioner about 20 days ago. Our representative was own stacks of the paper in the Post Office. 'The ban on this paper probably due to the instigation of the - Shanghai Special District' Kaomintang, but in any ea a great surprise to so far ho complaint whatever had Deen received from the. Chinese authorities. "The policy of this paper has always been the' same ie. to report with impartiality the true state of affairs in China. This
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