THE CHINESE BOYCOTT.
NO ILL-WILL TO JAPAN. Association—Copyright Received April 2, 9.47 a.m. Sydney, March 1. A mass meeting of Chinese merchants discussed the Tatsumaru incident and adopted the series of resolutions cabled on March 28th in favor of boycotting Japanese goods with the addition of a resolution that the Chinese bear no ill-will to their Japanese friends. Received April 2, 9.55 a.m. Sydney, April 2.
Two rival Chinese factions cooperated in the movement. The chairman read a cable from Canton, asking for the despatch of no goods by Japanese steamers and to purchase none. Patriotic speeches were delivered. The Chairman said the Chinese realised that the only instrument of war they possessed at present in their relations with the rest of the world was commercialism. Japan not having played the game the Chinese were determined to enforce the boycott juntil the humiliation inflicted on them was removed. They demanded the impeachment of Yuanshikai for yielding to a case of gross injustice and unreasonable demands.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9111, 2 April 1908, Page 5
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165THE CHINESE BOYCOTT. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9111, 2 April 1908, Page 5
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