Prejudice and Ignorance in Kiangchow: The Power of the Students From Our Own Correspondent, Kiangchow, Shansi, July 6.
The anti-Japanese movement is quite in evidence here. Huge placards, "Japanese drug advertisements on metal plates reversed, are displayed at the city gates, and posters of various grades of patriotic sentimentality are seen everywhere.
The "United brethren of the Republic" are asked if they can rest in peace while Dairen and Port Arthur are in alien hands? And, by the way, it may not be out of place or irrelevant to inland conditions to mention that only recently the writer was asked by the leading coal agent in town if there was any place known as Dairen! A letter had been received by a relative who had drifted thither and the friends and neighbours were in consternation on receipt of a letter from an unheard-of-place. Doubhless it is these dull brethren who ned awakening.
The Normal School of one city asserts the right to search shops for goods from the Eastern Sea. The Chambers of Commerce have been coerced into ordering monthly inventories of Japanese goods stocked in shops to be sent la and threatening penalties should increase rather than decrease in quantity be discover-ad. At the same time business people pursue their even tenor, and the contraband continues to be sold, with a proportionate increase in commercial falsehoods
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