The anti japanese movement appeary to be spreading daily, if we fare {o accept the reports which have been appearing in the Chinese press, which says that the administration of the Shanghai-Nanking and Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railways have declined to transport; Japanese made goods. This step, it is said, has been taken with a view to preventing unscrupulous merchants from despatching Jaanese goods to the interior and as means of enforcing the boycott.
At a meeting of local merchants held on Sunday morning under the chairmanship of Chen Te-ching, chairman fo the Kuomintang Propaganda Department, it was decided to organize an anti Japanese union so as to extend the boycott movement throughout the country. A committee was elected to draft rules for the punishment of persons who dealt in Japanese Meanwhile, is learned that agents have been sent to investigate the quantity of Japanese goods now stocked in Shanghai and goods which already have been ordered. Referring several cases of merchants declining observe the boycott rules, it was decided to postpone discussion unt a later date.
Several other meetings were held daring the week-end, including a couple in which dealers of Japancee raw materials were especially interested, but the deliberations were not made public.
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