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17.9.1909.

AN ANTI-BRITISH BOYCOTT ON THE

YANG-TSZE.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

SHANGHAI, ŠEPT, 18,

The boycott of the British shipping com- panies trading on the Yang-tsze River, which was initiated by the Kiukiang Native Chamber of Commerce in the middle of August as re- prisals for the alleged assault by Police Inspector Mears on a Chinese coolio resulting in the | latter's death, continues unchecked. Shippers are warned by the Chambers against the uso of British steamers. Evidence of the absence of any genuine resentment on the part of the merchants is afforded by surreptitious con- signments of cargo in assumed nåmes, as also by the fact that Messrs. Butterfield's steamers plying on the Poyang Lake are not included in the boycott as there are no other available means of transport there. Moars has already been discharged after a preliminary examination before the Kiukiang Consular Court, and the suggestion that he should be retried by the Shanghai Supreme Court is deprecated hero on the grounds that such a course would appear to be a concession to unjustifiable clamour as in the Fatshan incident.

It is instructive to compare the attitude of the Japanese towards a similar movement directed by the student classes as a protest against the action of the Japanese Govern- ment in regard to the Antung-Mukden Railway. The Shanghai Taotai under Japanese pressure fasues to-day a proclamation threatening punish- ment of the ringleaders and participants in the anti-Japanese boycott.