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Show MEANS ANOTHER BOXER UPRISING Chinese Trouble Likoh to He Serious if Not Speedily Checked. CHEBFOO, Dec. 30, 10 p m A proml-t.cnt proml-t.cnt Buropean official who Is visiting f'heefoo, cryslalizlng Ihe opinions of person! per-son! thoroughly aCQuaJnted In China and with the present disorders, slutos that th-Shanghai th-Shanghai trouble! WSn thi direct risult it the American boycott. He ihlnks the American ofTlclals at Washington should have Opposed the Chinese demands for a revision of the exclusion laws and insisted in-sisted upon the immediate suppression of the boycott. Boycott an Excuse. He characterises ihe boycott movement as an excuse for an exhibition of antl-fbrelgn antl-fbrelgn feeling resulting from an inflammatory inflam-matory propaganda carried op throughout through-out t'liina since the commencement of the Husso-Japanese war. Repetition Boxei Trouble. W hile the boycott in Itself Is harmless," harm-less," continues the official quoted, "M has bet (i used bj the r- volutlonary anti-forelgn anti-forelgn faction of th'- Chinese to pre clpiiate a repetition of tne Boxer troubles trou-bles though il Is pro), it.le 1 1 -1 1 the . x -citable elements have eluded the control ol the real conspirators and caused pre ma lure demonstrations." "I'nlcs.H the Washington authorities take Immediate and strong measures to suppress the agitation in shanghai." concluded con-cluded the official duoted, "trouble! which are now merely local will spread." Consul Holds It in Check. The failure of the boycott agitation appears ap-pears iii Cheefod to be due, undoubtedly, to the stern demuurt of American Conslil Fowler that the Chinese refrain from j holding meetings or issuing Inflammatory placards, resulting in the inability of the d. i iii;. runs. Chinese element to success- i full) prosecute their agitation |