Chambers of Commerce Conference: How the Agitation Ie Hitting Trade Shanghai, July 13.
The second sitting of the joint conference of Japanese Chambers of Commerce in China and Japan and the Sino-Japanese Businessmen's Association was opened this afternoon in the Japanese Club. Delegates from the Japanese Chambers of Commerce in various parts of China then reported on the actual condition of the anti-Japanese boycott in China.
Mr. T. Shimodzu, of the Tsingtao Chamber of Commerce, stated that although the anti-Japanese agitation in Tsingtao was for a time as intense as that prevailing in other places, it was at present comparatively "quiet, owing to the strict control by the Chinese authorities concerned there, but that the - agitation against Japanese residents in the principal towns along the Shantung Railway was going on rather intensely.
Mr. Y. Ohmachi of the Tsinan Chamber of Commerce said that. the condition of the anti-Japanese movement of to-day was outwardly calm as compared with that that prevailed in connexion with the Shantung controversy, the leading agitators being Chinese journalists and students, but the root of the agitation had been considerably strengthened. Mr. Ohmachi declared that as a result of inflammatory circular telegrams from Shanghai and other sources, the boycott and agitation had of late become more openly virulent. After giving details of the progress of the boycott movement, Mr, Ohmachi explained how far the Chinese authorities concerned were controlling this agitation. He added that thos: who were most hardly hit were the import merchants. While the loss sustained by exporters was not so great, he concluded, there were still many of them whose business was seriously affected owing to the fact that Chinese of the same trade were making capital out of the agitation,
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