JAPAN AND CHINA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9091, 18 May 1908, Page 5

JAPAN AND CHINA.

| THE CHINESE BOYCOTT. JAPAN IN A DEPLORABLE CONDITION. SYDNEY, May 16. Passengers by the China steamer state that Japan is in a deplorable condition owing to the Chinese boycott. The financial position is seriously injured. Banks are without gold, and the Chinese refuse to accept paper money. The opinion is expressed that the ultimate result would be war between China and Japan. "The boycott of Japan by China," said Mr James A. Chuey, Grand Master of the Chinese Masonic Lodge of Australia (numbering 10,000), to a Sydney "Morning Herald" representative recently, "is to continue. It was started seriously, it is being conducted effectively, and it will go ,on until the object has been achieved. Do you know that China is progressing? As it in your English words, 'she is awakening,'and 1 venture to prophesy that in three or four years China will have the open door. Her ports will be thrown open, and markets without limit will be made available to Australia. She will take your wool, your wheat, your leather. Why, lam going to China now to place Australian wool on the market, and every year.l send about three thousand bales to England and other countries. It is time that China used some of it, too." "Yes," continued Mr Chuey with fresh emphasis, "a tremendous market tor Australia is being opened. You are now building up verygreat industries, and you will want an outlet for your manufactures. China will give it to you. We are earnest in this matter of boycotting Japan, and the feeling throughout China, as well as Australia, is very strong. We shall give no trade to Japan. The Chinese are beginning to find out that the Japanese are not their friends. They would rather deal with Engishmen than Chinese, and what trade they do with us is not done out of any friendship. They are 'always on the make,' as you say in English. China has cost America millions of pounds already in regard to trade; and she will inflict greater loss upon Japan; and that is the best way to fight. The Chinese will never be aggressive; but strike at their nationality and they will refuse to trade with you. That is better than war, and a nation like that will 'never dream of any designs on Australia. The individual Chinese only stop here long enough to make money, and then they go back to the land of their birth."