The Archive · 1931

Merchants Hit by Boycott

Tientsin Japanese Send Appeal to Tokyo Tientsin, Sept. 3.

Because Japanese merchants here are feeling the effects of the Iaunehed by the Chinese the Jay ese Chamber of Commerce at Tien-{sin has petitioned to Baron Shidehara, the Japanese Foreign Minister, to lodge a protest with the Chinese "National "Government Nanking.

Other prominent personages [Japan have been asked to use their fluence to bring about an end to the Chinese campaign. against Japanese products.

The petition of the local Chamber "of Commerce describes the: methods adopted by the directors. fof the antivJapanese movement in Tientsin. It alleges that the boy-Jcott is in violation of Sino-Japanese treaties of amity, According to the petition, it impossible for Japan to consider the abolition of her extraterritorial privileges in China as long as such boycott movements as those now in force are allowed to continue—United Press.

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