Canton, June 11, For Canton, everything haa been! unusually quiet during the past week. Peace has not been disturbed by any labour demonstration and there has been hardly " minimum number of crimes committed. What everyone is asking is whether this simply is the lull that proceeds a serious outbreak, for the propagand. ists are begging to sharpen their weapons and are hungering for human blood.
Indications point to a possible renewal of the boycott of British goods, and of more certain trouble for Japanese merchants, The latter movement now holds the entre of the stage, Incensed at the sending of Japanese troops into Shantung, the Canton Government proposes to get back by the use of an economic weapon, Officials here are certain the Japanese troops have been sent to block the northward progress of their armies and they see failure to reach Peking unless these soldiers are withdrawn, 'Thus the antivJapanese movement takes on quite a different asjec from the anti-British movement, for the government confessedly is' its sponsor. At army headquarters on the ishing of Honam, General Lee 'Tsai-sam's "own" propagandist boveaw started the bell rolling, hike a snowball,—moving: downhill, it has been gai size and' velocity.
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