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Show CHINA'S REPLY TO JAPAN'S PROTEST Opinion Expreued by Chinese That Tbejf Should Have Some Rights in Their Own Country, In ln Meantime the Boycott Weapon It llelng Used, and Japan Asbf That Promotera of the Movement Move-ment be Restrained from Further Fur-ther Effort. Tekln Tho Chinese government oa Friday handed In a formal reply to Japan's protest agnlnat tho construe-yon construe-yon of tho Talnmlntun Fnkumcn nllroad. China ruiks Japan lo iliter-nine iliter-nine nnd fix tho distance, according l usage elsewhere, at which aho will fcrmlt tho existing line to bo raral-iled raral-iled nnd she place a limit Uion (pan's right tn opiioeo tho conatruc-eVri conatruc-eVri of railroads In Manchuria on the (round that they iarallcl and compete f llh the Jaianeso controlled lines llaron llajaahl, Iho Japani-e minister, min-ister, has handed In lo tho foreign board the names of tour Chinese merchant!) mer-chant!) who nro officially promoting Ihe bo) cot t moviments against Jaji-anese Jaji-anese goods, nud ho, nsk that they be uppreaed Acting upon ndvlco received from Imdon, the Ilrltlsh minister hn instructed in-structed Ihu Ilrltlsh consul general at .'anton to ndvlso tho Canton viceroy lo atippreea tho bojcolt The foreign board ha asked tho assistance as-sistance ot tho French minister to China In tho suppression of several thousand rebels, who, according to a telegram from the governor ot Yunnn province, hnvo captured tho l.aoliu pass, on the Tnnklng border, and who posse Fnnch arms, and who hnvo been trained by Frenchmen. |