JAPAN AND CHINA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 5

JAPAN AND CHINA.

. ■ . .9 . THE BOYCOTT. NEW CHINESE LINE TO AUSTRALIA. BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. : Sydney, March 27. Chinese merchants in this State proposo to take united action to boycott the goods of Japanese; firms. Arrangements havo been completed for tho establishment of a lino': of .steamships, to bo owned exclusively by Chincso, to trado botwo'en. Hong-Kong and Sydney. ' The Tatsu Mai-u incident is said • to be the oauso of this action. .. SOME CAUSES OF DISCORD.' ■ While the relations of China with other Powers haß sensibly improved, tho number of unsolved questions witlv Japan,. especially with regard to Manclinria, is increasing. Tho Ta-Iu timber : question at An-tung; the settlement' of • the Manchurian telegraphs and •' post offices; tho retention of: publi oburldings ■at Mukden,and-other cities; the retention of tho Fu-slnin and other Manchurian .coal mines; tho occupation'of the territory of Chientao, in KiriK. province, on tho pretest that,- though long occupied by China, it really belonged to Korea; and the serious question of Japan's prohibiting China from extending her own railway west of tho Liau River, on'tho ground that such an extension would compete. with a Japanese railway, 35 miles distant at the nea'tr;est, east of tho Liau-River—these: and other questions await solution.