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CHINA AWAKE.

AN ANTWAPANESE DEMONSTRATION. PROPOSED BOYCOTT. YUAN-SHI-KAI UNPOPULAR. BY TELEGttAPII —MIKS3 ASSOCIATION - COPYBiOHT. . (Rec.' March 23, 10.53 p.m.)' Canton, March 23. ~ln connection with'tlio release by China of the Japanese 'steamer Tatsii Maru (seized for carrying arms for Chinese rebels), and China's apology, to Japan, fifty .thousand peoplo held a..demonstration at Canton and burned, their 'Japanese garments.. . 1 They decided to recommend a'boycott of Japaneso goods, also tho ■ impeaclimcnt of Yuan-Shi-Kai. Many buildings v,ero draped in mourning.' OPIUM TRAFFIC. : BRITAIN AGREES TO REDUCED IMPORTATION. . (Rec. March 23, 9.28 p.m.) , ■ pekingj March 23. The •announcement.-has..been made ? at Peking'that Britain-has agreed to an ex-', perimental - decrease in tho .importation of opium for. a period of threo years, to .se© whether the • cultivation of the poppy and •the' number : of.. opium smokers will bo lessoned. Importation in that caso will.;Be decreased: 'annually.;, ; ' A -dccree, which -has . boon issued; at Peking, orders furtlicr measures to deal with tho ovil. ' ■ ... Yuan-Slii-Kai,- the powerful ex-Viceroy, who. is now reputed to be the strong man behind the Peking throne, is said to have achieved a position in China unequalled since,the timo of Li-Hung-Chang.. V' '. ' The Chinese' Government-last'year .''closed thousands, of .opium, dens in Shanghai iind_ elsewhere. A recent writer predicts well of the movement, and' congratulates the Xfouso oi Commons for ranging itself "on the side of the 'rising Chineso indignation; against the vice which British policy, under_ the influence .of misguided Anglo-Indian' officials, has. so _ long postered." v Otherwise the " anti-opium movement -might; have become :an anti-British ri.ovement. But though • imports may 'be restricted, there .is., an enormous quantity, of opium grown ' in. China, itself. .. ' '

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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 154, 24 March 1908, Page 7

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CHINA AWAKE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 154, 24 March 1908, Page 7

CHINA AWAKE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 154, 24 March 1908, Page 7

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