CHINA AND JAPAN

Evening Star, Issue 18334, 23 July 1923, Page 10

CHINA AND JAPAN

BOYCOTT IN PEKING AND TIENTSIN.

PEKING, July 10.

The boycott of Japanese goods still continues in Peking and Tientsin, as well as in other less important centres in North China. The boycott is caused by the refusal of tho Japanese to return to China the Kwangtung territory, tho lease of which was extended in 1915 for another ninety years, Tho extension was granted as a result of tho famous (or infamous) Twenty-one Demands made by Japan on China.

Tho leaders of this boycott movement are urging in support of their actions that Great Britain has forgone the balance of the lease of Wei-hai-wei, which still had many years to run. In accordance with tho agreement reached at the Washington Conference, Japan has returned to Girina Kiao-chau, which was captured from tho Germans in 1914, but still stands firm on tho Twentv-one Demands.

The territorie.l already returned to China did not take long to lapse into the chaotic state prevailing all over China. As the Japanese walked out of Kiao-chau tho bandits walked in, and have held sway ever since. The railway lending from the port has suffered as a result of the change of management. Parts of South Manchuria, which were leased to the Russians but taken from them in the Russo-Japanese War, are also being held by Japan. Dalny (now known as Dairen) and Port Arthur (now known as Ryojun) have both been converted into typical Japanese cities, the former having been turned into a flourishing and modernised port, which handles all the vast exports from South Manchuria, mainly beans and wheat.