CHINESE BOYCOTT
INTENSIFIED IN SHANGHAI
BRITISH SENT OUT .OF WUCHOW,
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIOHT.)
(RIDTER'S lEIEOIUH.)
(Received 22nd July, 10 a.m.)
PEKIN, 21st July.
Foreign telegrams from Canton state that all British residents have been instructed to leave Wuchow (150 miles' upriver from Canton) inoliiding the Customs officials, owing to the strict boycott. Food supplies have been cut off from an American gunboat, as well a» from British residents.
Numbers of strikers a?e still returning to work at Shanghai, despite violent intimidation.
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce has decided to confiscate all British and Japanese goods in the possession of Chinese, and is fining merchants who do not participate in the boycott of the British and Japanese.
The boycott campaign will commence on 30th July, and will be carried on for a year.
A friendly gesture by the British chamber was discussed, but was described as insincere, and was left over.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 19, 22 July 1925, Page 5
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150CHINESE BOYCOTT Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 19, 22 July 1925, Page 5
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