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Show ;hina cannot , KiEP UP BOYCOTT Portland. Ore., Aug 0. America need ever fear a boycott of their i. ior? Important exports by tho Chi-, Chi-, peso, according to W. H. Ickman, a business niffli of Hong Kong, who Li on ' his way lo London, after spend-I spend-I ing tvvtnty-two years In China. "The principal products the Chi-i.ese Chi-i.ese get are tiour and kerosene,' sai.l Mr Wickham. "They cannot pined a boycott on flour because they can-net can-net get It in any other country. The same is true of kerosene. The American market cau never be disci dis-ci (initiated against. "China U becoming a cigarette-tmoklng cigarette-tmoklng nation. Cigarettes are being t-ubstltuted for opium. The tobacco Is shipped from the United States and manufactured in China. Cigarettes Hre carried far Into the interior. Tho I rices are high, but the Chinese pay thorn." . |