ENCLOSURE NO. 2.
Translation.
Warning to our merchants re British Goods Enquiry Forms,
23rd.
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Our merchants! More than a year has elapsed since the great massacre of May 30th at Shanghai and of June 29th at Shaki. Our insult has not yet been avenged, and our grievance has not yet been redressed. How painful we are! The murderous British Imperialists though they have been attacked by the Canton-Hong Kong strikers, have never had any desire for settlement. Of late they have again adopted the "Gen-boat Policy and threatened as Chinese with another massacra. incident of Wansien, more than 1000 men were killed, and the
loss of property and wealth amounted to millions of dollars.
The menace committed by British gun-boats on the Canton River
on the 4th September was witnessed by us all.
In the
As the Canton-Hong Kong strikers have changed their policy
and have automatically given up their armed blockade, the
responsibility of Anti-British boycott has now rested on the
shoulders of the people of the whole province. Therefore the
peasants, workmen, merchants, students and soldiers of the whole
province have now organised the Anti-British Economic Boycott Extension Commission, and have resolved to enforce the rules for suppressing purchase and sale of British goods and circulation of British bank-notes, and to carry out the Anti-British economic boycott. In the first step, enquiries will be made as to British goods the various shops in the City have in stock, and then to fix a time for their clearance and to suppress further
purchase.
Our merchants: The blood stains of May 30th and June 23rd are still fresh, and the flesh of our martyrs have not yet cooled If we are not cold-blooded betrayers, we must boycott the British Imperialists automatically and seriously, overthrow them and revenge the wrongs of our victims.
Therefore we must bag that you merchants on receipt of the Enemy Goods Enquiry Form, will immediately make us a report
without