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responsible for the recent bortive negotiations regarding
the delimitation of the boundaries of Macas, was intensifi-
-ed by the *Tatsu Maru* incident which gave rise to the
Japanese Beycott. That Boycott would undoubtedly have been
extended to Portugal had there been any trade to boy-
-cott which there was not. The feeling of exasperation
was only increased by the inability of the Chinese to find
any means of retaliation, and the fact that it was a
Pertuguese employee of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire who
was alleged to be responsible for the supposed outrage on
the "Fatshan" (which gave rise to the boycott against
Kessrs. Butterfield and Swire) added fuel to the smoulder-
-ing indignation. The only method of reprisal which the
engenuity of the Self-Government Society of Canton could
invent, was to found a large commercial emporium close to
Macao at Heungshan, in order to strangle the Portuguese
Colony. This was done with much vapouring and noise, and
the port was opened with ceremony by the Viceroy himself. A
large number of houses have I an informed been built, but
as there is no deep water in the port its future does not
appear to be well assured.
The agitators of Canton during
the whole of the Boundary delimitation never ceased to
urge