The reported stoppage of the negotiations between Canton and Hongkong for the settlement of the boycott has caused profound disappointment among the Chinese, who had been confidently reckoning on a satisfactory outcome. It is now in. timated that the strike organizations are going to stiffen up the boycott; and according to their own star. ment there is certainly room for it; for they gravely declare that -in spite of all their efforts for the past year, eight or nine tenths of the cloth in the market at present is of "enemy" origin. It is extreme-unlikely that, with people's minds obsessed with the iniquities of their own government,.they will be able to revive any active interest in their stiffening process.
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