ANTI-JAPANESE BOYCOTT.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17880, 28 September 1923, Page 3

ANTI-JAPANESE BOYCOTT.

THE TROUBLE IN AMOY.

(bt casus—pmss associatio*— copseight.) UUST&AUAH AW H.Z.. CAIIX ASSOCIATION.) (Received September 27th, 9.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 26. The Amoy Chamber of Commerce induced the longshoremen and stevedores to call the strike off. The strikers were convinced that the strike would inflict suffering upon the Chinese population while the Japanese would bo relatively unaffected. The Japanese sailors and marines are continuing to protect the Formosans while the Chinese are retaliating by » continuance of their anti-Japanese boycott. [A previous message 6aid: —The city of Amoy, which is held by Dr. Sun Yat Sen, and besieged by North China forces, is on the verge of a general strike as a protest against the landing of Japanese Bailors and marines. The Japanese were landed last Sunday to protect Formosans when fighting broke out between the latter and the Chinese residents of the city; whereupon the longshoremen and stevedores declared a strike, thus preventing the loading and unloading of ships. • Since the landing of the Japanese, fighting between the Formesans and the Chinese has virtually ceased, hut the Japanese refuse to evacuate the city.]