Show CHINA CHIMA TRADE I I DECliNES MO MOON N I AfTER MOON I i Records Show Great Falling Off on Account of Boycott By Elizabeth S. S Allen PEKIN China Nov 29 A A Chinese newspaper of ot was shut down downa a few weeks ago for mentioning the boycott on enem enemy goods Perhaps I tho the editor carelessly careless expressed In InI I print what was clearly In his mind for Cor the thought of ot Japan as an I enemy is only too common In China today It is against Japan that all alii the hatred of ot the Chinese for Interfering interfering Inter inter- fering foreigners has now concentrated concentrated concen concen- In a a. movement which for the first time In modern history unites the the most Influential classes of oJ both north and south China In one nationwide nationwide nationwide nation nation- I wide campaign of ot patriotic effort effort As It spreads through the Interior I the movement gets further from tho the thoI I I control of ot government and police pollee MOVE SPREADS I At first It was only the ret retail bu buyers ers who refused Japanese goods Then II came the movement against Japanese currency But the boycott against Japan really assumed alarming proportions pro- pro 1 J portions when the wholesale merI merchants merchants mer- mer I chants began to refuse future orders on their Japanese houses and within I a few weeks the shipments to China ports dropped off olf from 60 50 to 75 per peri i cent centI i I The students ar are the promoters and andI the Is I directors of ot the movement It I extraordinary to see how meekly rich richi i merchants follow the commands of this little body of ot vehement patriots I A characteristic example of ot their methods occurred at Cheki- Cheki ang province Here the students announced announced an an- I flounced that three months' months grace graceI I should be allowed the merchants to conclude existing contracts and get rid of ot Japanese goods I I FINES PROVIDED I After this time of grace any merchant merchant merchant mer mer- chant receiving goods from Japan Tapan was to be fined 30 per cent of ot their value and forced to destroy them A merchant meri mer- mer i chant who disobeyed this injunction not long ago was tried at the city I I commercial club and found guilty j I Ills entire shipment of goods was wasI I burned on the public playground j That same week a report from I stated that two prominent Chinese firms were suspected of ot re receiving receiving re- re low grade goods The goods were seized taken to the chamber of at commerce for Inspection and being I 1 proved proved of ot Japanese origin were publicly publicly pub pub- burned burned burned-at at a loss it is estimated of ot The merchants continued the narrator nar nar- j submit with a fairly good I grace to the students' students decisions decisions' SALES RECORDED j I The rhe Shen Pao a nonpartisan journal journal jour- jour I nal of ot Shanghai published a statement statement statement state state- ment on August 21 of the volume of ot otI i goods handled by dealers in Japanese I trade During the fifth and sixth i moon from Crom about May 12 the day dayi j i the boycott started for two months I there was a hep p practically y ym no oon business done I In the he seventh m moon business I was only one fifth that d done ne before the boycott period I The strength of ot the boycott bocott movement move- move I ment lies in the fact that it is gradI gradually gradually grad grad- being changed Into a boom for native industry The student or organIzers organizers organizers or- or I early grasped the fact that the Chinese themselves stood to lose in the long run from a purely re reI restrictive restrictive re- re movement while on the theother theother theother I other hand active benefit to China might result from replacing Japanese trade with native products and trade I of foreign competitors It was by byI changing their boycott against Japan I Into a boom for native products that the students enlisted the aid of ot the I far tar sighted Chinese merchant and andI even in some cases of the governing I class in their patriotic movement |