The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-09-08
CHINESE BOYCOTT
IS FELT IN JAPAN
Liner Brings Evidence of the Effec-
tiveness of Ban on Island
Empire.
REPORTS OF BUSINESS MEN.
Business Declared at Standstill and
Government Has No Money
to Retaliate.
REPORTS OF BUSINESS MEN

SAN FRANCISCO, August 23.-If
the Celestial who conceived the idea
of the boycott as a weaI on to punish
Japan for its part in the Tatsu Maru
incident could have seen the Japanese
liner Hongkong Maru when that
yacht-like steamship arrived here Fri
day from the orient he would have
Rugged himself with satisfaction. AS
an outward and visible sign of what
China is doing to Japan In a CONNER
cial way the Hongkong Maru was
good as a written acknowledgment,
signed by the mikado himself. OF
cargo the liner did not have enough
for ballast, and to keep the ship in
good trim had taken 500 tons of extra
coal at Nagasaki.
OF Chinese passengers the Hongkong
Maru brought only two. Eight took
passage at Shanghai, but the boycott
authorities heard about IL, and before
the steamer sailed six OF the Celestial
passengers were persuaded by the COM
mercial guilds to go ashore and wait
for an American liner. The two Chi
nese that did travel on the Hongkong
were allowed to do so for the reason
that a later steamer would have land
ed them here after the expiration of
their registration certificates, and they
would have had difficulty in landing.
BOYCOTT is EFFECTIVE.
According to passengers on the
Hongkong Maru the boycott is flour
ishing, and the Japanese loss has
reached a figure beside which the Tatsu
Maru indemnity looks like carfare. A
number of Japanese steamship compa-
MES are said to be on the verge of
bankruptcy. Business in Japan is
practically at a standstill. The people
are groaning under the burden of tax
alton and the government is calling for
suggestions of methods by which the
boycott may be broken or circumvent-
ed.
According to one passenger, Japan
recently sent to China a squad of pick
ed newspapermen to explain to the
editors of the most prominent Chinese
journals how much Japan really loved
China. The Chinese editors received
the visitors courteously, thanked them
for their expressions of esteem and
went on boosting the boycott.
When an appeal was issued to the
world for contributions to aid the vic
tins of floods in China, Japan seized
what looked like a good opportunity
to win Chinese good will and made
handsome contributions to the relief
fund. These contributions, according
to passengers on the Hongkong Maru,
were returned with thanks, and the
boycott machinery given a little wider
scope
BUSINESS AT STANDSTILL.
George F. Brindley, who, with his
wife and daughter, returned from ia
pan on the Hongkong Maru, says that
he came away because business in ia
pan was at standstill. Living in ia
pan, he says, is now as expensive as
living in New York. Brindley, whose
wife is a daughter of Eli T. Shepperd
of this city, lived in Japan nearly all
his boyhood days and is a graduate Of
the Tokyo university. His father laid
out the first plans for Japan's new
navy, and when Brindley returned to
Japan two years sago it was with the
intention of remaining there perman-
entity He loved the island kingdom
and its people.
But l found everything changed
he said. at took two years to do it,
but every illusion l ever had about
Japan has been dispelled, and want
no more of it. Japan's rise was sud
den, and it was too much for Japan.
1t has made the country delirious, but
annoyance to the rest OF the world as
the result of that delirium will be lin