Show CHINESE FIND BOYCOTT BEST WEAPON HOW V IT OPERATES Observers Think United States Skates On Thin Ice FOREIGNERS IN FEAR Americ Americans ns Thus Far Fortunate In Recent Developments nr Br Y DREW PEARSON Special ll Correspondent of Tho Ph CopyrIght 1927 By The Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated PreES Association WASHINGTON Feb China 6 B has had It Indelibly written acro liar Increasingly nationalistic mind that her greatest weapon against the foreigner on her soil i is the boycott and If It China chooses choose to use the boycott against Americans to force their evacuation from Shanghai all of ot the marines In Inthe Inthe inthe the United States navy will tin find It difficult to balk Chinas China's new of passive resistance Observers In Washington who are familiar with conditions In China are pointing to this pos pea possible pos possible sible development In la connection with Ith the state staf departments department's or- or order order or order der this week dispatching marines from Cavite P I to Shanghai and of o 1200 more from fro San Diego Calif The Tho boycott may be ba Chinas China's reply to this move asit has bos been so often In Inthe inthe Inthe the past against the th British anti and other foreigners FLEET 1 IN IN CHINA The United States now has hu 5 52 naval vessels In Chinese terri tern territorial territorial tonal waters a greater force than that of ot any other country For For- Fortunat Fortunately For Fortunately ly for America the Chin Chin- Chinese Chinese Chinese ese so far have hav chosen to over over- overlook over overlook look this having apparently de decided do- do decided to concentrate all tb their Jr bitterness against the tho British In order to split spilt the th hegemony of foreign powers S Although the th state stat department has bas been worried over the pos pos- possible possible pos possible sible necessity of ot protecting American citizens against an armed invasion of ShAnghaI the chief danger Is la not in an attack by an outside Chinese army but butIn butin tn In riots within the tho city Riots In the past have several times resulted in the shooting of o ChIn ChIn- ChInese Chin Chinese I ese by the foreign police and tile the I most unfortunate Incident Ima Imag- Imag Imaginable Imag Imaginable I in the present situation would he be b the shooting of one or more Chinese by American ma- ma marines ma ma rifles rines 3 ashore in Shanghai On at least three different occasions In Inthe Inthe the memory of this observer has haa the shooting of Chinese resulted In a sweeping wave of boycott and bitterness against the of- of offending offending of offending fending nation EFFECT OF OP STRIKE In the tho seamen's strike four tour years ago when hen the Chinese first learned the power of the boycott bocott a a party porty of Chin Chin- Chin Chinese ese eze seamen who were on their way from the British territory to Kowloon were met at the th bord border r rby by a a squad of British troop troops who refused to allow v them to crosS When tho the Chinese proceeded re- re regardless re regardless of orders they were shot ahot and killed Immediately a a hither hither- hitherto hitherto r to local seamen's strike was turn turn- turned turn turned ed 04 Into a general strike against the British Every cook coolie babies nurse butcher baker and candlestick maker in the city struck and It was Impossible even to buy brea surrendered to every demand of the striking seamen Again after acter the British poll police had shot Into a crowd of Chinese students Inlay In May lay 1925 1125 every store In Shanghai closed 1000 Chinese workers walked out of the eleo dec trio light plant telephone operators quit together with every hotel clerk wharf bonk bank clerk and linotype operator Some of the workers did not so- so re return turn until three thre and four tour months later IT WORKS I AG AGAIN The Th most disastrous strike oc occurred c at t Canton following the Shameen shooting of June Jun 23 when some somo Chinese were killed all and 1 wounded When the tha writer visited the tho foreign conces conces- conces concession concession sion slon four tour months later gra grass hal had grown up In its streets business houses bouses were closed and mouldy It was Impossible to buy food tood and for tor lack of servants the American o consul was forced to sweep out his own o office Two weeks ago China the boycott for the first time against Americans Americans who woke weke wok up the mornIng the boycott went Into effect and rang for their boy bOT found that he ho did not answer When they went to buy food tM the merchants refused to sell Anti Ane worst of all the carriers of night soil night soil refused to dispose of sewage Under these circum circum- circumstances circumstances stances almost every American evacuated despite the tact fact that It Is the th American naval base bue In Chin China |