BOYCOTT FOR A YEAR
LATEST MOVEMENT IN CANTON TO OUST THE FOREIGNERS. Renter's Telegram. PEKING, July 21. Foreign telegrams from Canton state that, all British residents have been instructed to leave Wuchow (150 miles up-river from Canton) including the Customs officials, owing to the strict boycott. Food supplies have been cut off from an American gunboat, as well as from British residents. Numbers of strikers are 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 Japnnese. The boycott campaign will commence on July 30th, and will he carried on for a year. A friendly gesture by the British chamber was discussed, but was described as insincere, and was left oven.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12197, 23 July 1925, Page 10
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