Show in their boycott of everything american san francisco dec as according to latest reports received here from the orient the boycott in china has become so serious that a number of american houses have closed their doors until the conditions change there arrived here yesterday from the orient on the steamer coptic R van sant who represented a local firm at shanghai mr van sant in speaking of the boycott said the situation tn china Is very serious and there is absolutely nothing in the stories that the feeling against american goods has lessened it has now extended to seventeen provinces and in canton and bankow the situation is just as bad as in shanghai the americans are not doing 20 per cent of the business they formerly did and at hong kong the chinese were purchasing australian flour at much higher price than that quoted by the americans the chinese bbate that they will not trade with the americans until there Is a modification of tha exclusion laws but this I 1 told them was hardly probable in the event of the united states tailing to pass a law less stringent than the present one the chines will adopt more drastic measures the boycott has developed into an anti foreign feeling and the british and german business concerns in the orient are suffering the loss of considerable trade |