A mass meeting was held at Woosung on Wednesday afternoon under the auspices of the Kuomintang to voice the opposition of the local Ipeople to the action of the Japanese Government in despatching troops to Chin A number of soap-box speeches were delivered, the lecturers saying that, if the revolution were to be success, it was necessary to Jcliminate Japanese imperialism and, in order to do this, the Chinese people must remain united and fight the affair out to the bitter end by severing economic relations with Japan, "Fight and continue to fight." the speakers shouted, "until [the Japanese Government comes to its senses and arrives at terms with Jour Nationalist Government, The people were urged to show "some colour" to the foreigners and were wed that, apart from fighting japanese, they had to fight the British Imperialists and eliminate the new Chinese militarists, Who the new" militarists were was not stated.
The meeting ended with the fol-owing resolutions:—That the Chi nese General (Chamber of Comferce be urged to take charge of all Japanese goods now in Shanghai and all on order; that merchants. be urged to place all orders and documents for Japanese goods with the Chamber of Commerce within two weeks; and, that in the event of merchants failing to report to the Chamber within the specified time, their stocks of Japanese goods and on order should be confiscated and the proceeds be devoted to the Nationalist war funds,
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