Show BOYCOTT BY CHINESE IS NOT SERIOUS victoria B C july as dr morrison pekin correspondent of the lon don times arrived by the steamer tartar today on his way to washington to attend the peace negotiations interviewed ter regarding the boycott established by chinese against american merchants and merchandise in china be said ho did not think the movement would assume great proportions while it was a boycott on a larger scale than any previously attempted in china it was without government sanction as had been alleged and at the end of june shortly before he left pekin an imperial edict was sent to the governors and viceroys vice roys of provinces ordering them to do what they could to stop the movement in th larger chinese cities it was not considered that the movement is sufficiently serious to cause alarm regarding the report telegraphed from shanghai that japanese influences vere believed to be behind the movement the well known pekin journalist said ho did not believe this for an instant just now he said the tendency was to blame the japanese for everything that took place in the orient from bis own observations he learned the japanese have the best feeling toward the united states the boycott movement Is being organized by societies of chinese students many of whom were educated in japan and abroad they petitioned the government to refuse to agree to such legislation as the exclusion chich put a stigma upon the chinese nation and the boycott a weapon used for hundreds of years in china was started to further their cause regarding cainas chinas attitude towards the forthcoming peace conference he said A section of chinese wanted representation for china at the conference but better counsels had prevailed on it being shown that the meeting was in no sense an international one but solely between the belligerents the leading chinese officials are confident that japan will act in good faith he said the feeling in japan since the appointment of M witte and saron rosen by russia was that the meeting was to be a bona fide one and that peace will ensue the japanese were jubilant over what they termed the recovery rather than iho conquest of Sag hallen |