The Archive · 1931

BOYCOTT MEMORIES

The Frugal Mind, Ir ig reported from Tientsin that To, the Editor of the the two Russians who left Shang-'en owen-Cuna Daw News." hai recently on a wheelbarrow tour

population "are again. engine SmNow that a number of the lof the world have arrived at that their patriotism by stealing other port, making 1,921 kilometres hey will next proceed to Mukden, after which they will go to Korea Deople's goods, it may be of interes To°recall two! stories of "a foras AnticJapanese boycott.

in 1918 oF 1019, 0 mass-meeting, after such patriotic activities i and, what Ki ing' Kruger with Sour mouth," had elected. x boycott ice and this committee ruled day each native the Committee at a fixed price, and to be inscribed with Chinese characters meaning "Do not buy inferior goods" but conveying in some subtle way that by "inferior" "Japanese"

intended.

The Municipal Council of the time decided that no active need be. talgn in he matin, but 6 traffic, some of these flays fad to be taken down, and were then found to he made of Japanese piece-goods! The Committee had jaghe their material in a depressed market: (to misquote)

"For the' to boycott they were Dent, they had a frugal mind! and Japan, and then from there, to India and Europe, Tae Ministry of Foreign Attaics fig reported to have lodged a protest with Japan against Japanes troops carrying out autres in Chinese territory without first notifying the Chinese auth forties, The protest mentions that manquvres were carried out on the banks of the Tumengkiang River, Manchuria, on August 11.

Acconoixc to a statement issued by the Passport Office of the Great et Shanghai Bureau of Public Safety, 1,803 foreigners entered the port of Shanghai during July, decrease of 95 compared with June but an increase of 300 over the May arrivals.

Of these thers were 830 men, 638. women and 1265,

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