The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-06-10
NO LET-UP
IN BOYCOTT
NEWS FROM COAST INDICATES
THAT CHINESE MEAN TO BAR
OUT JAPANESE TRADE.

ToCoMA, May 31.-Chinese boycott
tiers claim they will make Japan pay
two hundred millions loss Of trade be-
cause of the attitude of the Mikado's
government after the seizure of the
Tatsu Maru. More than 200 of the
largest Chinese firms who have con-
nections in Hongkong, Canton, Pc
king, Shanghai, Singapore, Penang,
Rangoon, America and Australia have
signed an ironclad agreement to with
draw all their patronage from Japan
ese firms.
The boycott agreement is being cir
culated industriously throughout the
Chinese empire, and thousands of the
smaller dealers will be tied up. The
sentiment of the Chinese population Is
controlled through guilds that are agi-
Eating the boycott.
Though neither Japan nor Japanese
merchants are mentioned by name in
the boycott agreement the compact is
comprehensive and remarkable doc
ument. Throughout Japan is referred
to as 1.-The country which makes it
difficult for official interference to
suppress the boycott on diplomatic rep
reservations.
The sweeping character of the agree
ment is indicated by the fact that the
signatory parties are bound not to buy
Japanese goods nor accept Japanese
insurance policies, to wire no remit
tances through Japanese banks and to
ship no goods in any Japanese vessel.
Those who have already signed the
compact control absolutely the trade
of central and southern China. An
oathbound agreement binds each to
pay penalty of 5000 for any violation.
That the boycott already is effective
has been demonstrated through the
sharp decline in oriental shipment and
the small cargoes that are being car
rfied by Japanese steamships running
to Puget sound and San Francisco.
BOYCOTT NIPPON SHIPS.
SAN FRANCISCO, June New
schemes invented by the Chinese mer-
chants in China to keep up the boycott
against the Japanese are coming to
light every day in San Francisco. The
latest thing is souvenir envelope got
up by the National Disgrace associa-
ton. Written across the entire length
of the envelope are the words The
National Disgrace. Lest We Forget
the Tatsu Maru."
The envelopes thus inscribed are be-
ing used by the members of the asso-
citation and their sympathizers for a
large amount of their business and
private correspondence, and the world
wide circulation of their letters tends
to keep the cause of the national boy
colt against Japanese goods ever upper
most in Chinese minds. By this means
and various circulars that are being
distributed in southern China and at
all Chinese settlements nf Importance
elsewhere, the sphere of the boycott
is growing moe widespread in spite
of the strict censorship exercised by
the government of China over the
newspapers and other news dissemina-
tors.
The Chinese are fully determined to
carry on the present tactics of harass-
ing the Japanese by quietly working
against their business interests as by
these means it is impossible for the
Nipponese to make the boycott diplo-
matte problem.
1t is not probable that the Chinese
merchant organizations in San Fran
cisco, or in the other coast cities, will
take any official notice of the boycott
as they have but little trade relations
with the mikado's subjects, other than
passenger and freight transportation
between America and the orient. How
ever, they are boyootting the japanese
steamship lines plying between China
and America, and it is noticeable fact
that there are no Chinese passengers
on the japanese controlled liners where
other services are extant. Where
trans-Pacific shipments are concerned
not one ounce of goods shipped to the
Chinese importers of San Francisco is
carried in Japanese bottoms.