Now that the two Kuang provinces, are at peace, the capital of Kuangsi has "once more become a busy metropolis. Street improvements jate being carried out on a. large jecale and it is easy to conjecture the great strides Young China would Jmake wore it free from internal and external complications and. from which any other country in the world would find it even more Jdifheult to recover.
Anti-Japanese meetings are the' lorder of the day and night in /Namning. Amongst all classes, the feeling runs high against Jepan land, in. case. of war, even th schools would certainly send the! quota to the front. the bounds of reason.
tad not the school youngsters become Involved with the police on Wing Han Road, checking the zeal of those' clamouring far an' anti-Japanese, boycott could" not have licen easily managed, Right along the government has not sought to step the fw. ita South, Chinn articles made in the island kingdom.
ts policy has been to do nothing to antagonize Japan, but to forbear, to "temporize, Unification fret, {hen the solving of the big question ly worn creasing impatience ofthe schoo! boys, the authorities were at their wits" ends for they were. cementing public epiniom and to have blocked & boy" S&C mtich longer would have been fo ran counter to the popular, wi Viclenee was, the undoing of th extremists: a boomerang tha Ghocked them' fats Radicals bad] mingled with the mab on Wing Han and their presence led to the Train of blood. 'The. truth. has teen laid bare by' the Government, trid" as the. populace. has come. to tee the shadow of communism mov {ing across the scene, a teaing" yetulaion has exepped 3p cit no longer the thing to follow in the {eatitepe of the student While skilfully forming a popul: sentiment more'in Keeping. With Rae ce ere and stopped Sing bye the foreocke and: stop the further activities of all the dent spirits o> the ground that the exigency of the occasion calls PoE Guolihite'ot ususial mensuros {ee ern the pons Martial law was proclaimed, and for a few days] Cine brited with bayonets aad pan bers of individuals out afer the Te'thele homes had to sleep'on the when they shoal, have. ben "Sapna t hn sin in part, but there has been noticeable relaxation in the string the lad the desired effect of gert of the forcement. They the! students back to their studies, Keopting them off the streets, the be all and end all' And whereas. t Japanese trade had become almost existent, it has taken a new Tense of life, There has been Picking-up in imports, and the bie has lost. its timidity and fs]
"The Str Niko Maru dropped an-char off Shameen some days ago, and her agents could not find ste-Yedores to land the cases and bales In her hold. Without discharg che had to weigh anchor an downstream, to Hongkons.
On" fother vessel, was interfered while unloading, the cables tying lighter to. her side being cut by boycott pickets. On the water; and alor the wharves; openly retly pickets have been abl agh courage importations by intimidate ing cargo coolies, and the consign ces of Japanese' goods, Ail is still not what it should be jon the river and along the Bund, but now "and. again a Japane! steamer dees come in and does in roundabout way get her cargo ashore. Nearly everything is being brought up from "Hongkong by. train, however, and the management of the Canton-Kovloon Railway has Vesued orders to its staff that they' fare to have no part in interfering. with the delivery of anything. brought over the line. And pickets, being ata. decided disadvantage working inside the city, have not een able to put_a stop to this new practice of moving Japanese meret. 27.
It is not that the Japanese colony panicky that there has been such jan' exodus, but business being virtually at a stand-still a large foumber of the Shameen residents fave gone back to Japan for a Jnoliday. Although the business of importing over the Kowloon-Canton Railway has been brisk, after all what can be brought im that, way is but a drop in the ducket—jsandries and the like. Coal has to moved by steamer, and the [cooties will not condescend 10. handle the unloading. And while paper may. Ibe imported freely enough now that a collector is gathering a tax on for feign paper, tine tax has been imposed las a concession so that the paper may. be imported without: molestaion and the importers will not pay the collector, "So this-business' too is dead.
Four dollars for 100 catties was to Inave been ped on higher grades, land" $2. on' inferior quality. induce the dealers to volent and continue operating, these figures are be cut in half. It ig too ently to say whether or not this will cure the complaint.
What boycotting is being done in Canton has keen of a passive nature, [At Kongmoon, a Kuangtung port of fantry, however, news Feceived is to the "effect that some goods been seized by pickets. "A few days ago, a bomb wrecked the front of Wing Wo Shang, a foreign goods store at Luchang in the Shuntch let off by the Iboyeotters because the owners would not stop selling Japanese goods. tone was hurt, however, but considerable "property damage was Now the Municipal Chamber of Commerce, which is the ancient and powerful General Chamber of Commerce reorganised, comes. with the requirement that, all Canton shops confess which of their" goods "are the product of Japan. Nothing. aid about confiscation, or about ting for other punishment, only that non. compliance with the registration ack will be met with a fine. Inspectors appointed by the Chamber will check tap on the accuracy of the declavaions made by. making a personal Jexamination of the shop contents fand proof of registration will be in the form of a placard. pul up outside the shop front, This filling in and fling of forms showing what Japanese goods. are being carried begins on November 1. After having given these statistics to the Chamber, the registrant must make another report every five days showing what Japanese goods have been sold during: the five-day period, Jand, when' the lot has been disposed of, another placard will be tacked will contain the faithful proof the shopkeeper that, sor jover afterwards, he will not, stoop to deal in Japanese merchandise, Since October 20, Canton has been getting along without marti Taw. The post of Martial Law Administrator still exists, and General Hsiang Han-ping still functions as Administrator, Spuads of armed soldiers still patrol the streets, though only intermittently. On October 20, General Hsiang made public an announcement that the regulations which he had promulgate. Jed a few days before had been jeancelled, and at al) hours of the day and night the public may move jabour through the streets and seek entertainment at amusement resort for restaurants with perfect freedom,
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