Panay Incident Revives Old Animosity in Public Washington, Dec, 28.
A number of large American chain stores, with branches in hundreds of towns from coast to coast, to-day re reported to have announced would discontinue the purchas apanese goods as long can public opinion remains Japanese.
The report was sensationally public ized in local papers, indicating acute public interest in an anti-Japanes of some local ber of chain stores said they would conform to the boycott policy, Posstbility of a widespread anti-Japanese boycott appeared great be-caüse óf the support given the movement by labour organizations throughout the country. The recent Panay incident, which aroused American feeling to almost war-pitch, also gave impetus to the boycott movement, observers believed,—United Press.
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