Show BOYCOTT IS SERIOUS I Chinese Determined to Have Nothing to Do With Americans Until Treaty Is Modified San Francisco Dec tp latest reports received hero here from the Ori Orient nt the boyco boy ott t in Chino China has become so serious that no a number of American houses have havo closed their doors until the conditions change There arrived here yesterday from the Orient on the steamer Coptic R Van Sant who rep represented represented resented a 0 local firm at Shan Shanghai Mr Van Sant in speaking of the boycott said The situation in China is very seri zen zenop op and there is absolutely nothing In th that the feeling against AmerIcan goods has lessened It has nov extended to seventeen provInces provinces Inces and In Canton and the situation is just as lad bad as In Shanghai The Americans are not doing 20 per percent percent cent ol o the business they formerly dId and at Hong Kong the Chinese were purchasing Australian flour at n a much higher price than that quoted by the Americans The Chinese state that they will not trade with the Americans until there is a modification of the e exclusion laws but this I told them was hardly probable probable able In the event of the United States g to pass a law less stringent than the present one the Chinese will adopt more drastic measures The boycott has into an anti foreign feeling and the British and German business concerns in the Ori Or Orient Orent ent are suffering the loss ot of consider considerable considerable able trade |