Arizona republican., 1915-08-30
PRESIDENTS DEGREE
 HAS NO EFFECT
Campaign Ostensibly Di- rected Against All Wares Not Manufactured in Chi ma, Reacts Mostly Against the Japanese.

PEKING. Aug. 29.-"Chinse goods
 for China is the latest slogan in
 the new republic. It represents the
 boycott against Japanese goods in a modified form. a form against
 which Japan can offer little objec
 tion.
 President Yuan Shi-kars decree that there should be no boycott against Japan as a result of the Japanese demands upon China, has had no effect In fact boycotting has become more marked. It is an af- fair wholly beyond the control of tbc Chinese government.
 But the boycott has been given a new twist by the Shanghai Chambe- of Commerce and other commercial organizations which have started the home made goods movement. The campaign is ostensibly directed against all wares not manufactured in China. but the Chinese have shown greater disposition to do without Japanese goods than the products of other nations
 Cheap cotton goods and cigarettes lave suffered more than other Jap anese products. perhaps as a result of the boycott. Japanese goods are sold in China through Japanese selling agencies. Consequently Chin .se merchants have no trouble in avoiding the wares of the country against which they feel grievance. The falling off in the sale of cheap Japanese cotton goods has been so marked that Japan is seeking a market in India. commission re- gently visited that country and an ..4H Tu later.
 delegation from the Osaka Chamber of Commerce visited Hong Kong. Shanghai and other Chinese cities in an effort to conciliate the Chinese merchants. It was an nounced that the feeling against Japanese manufacturers was due to misunderstanding which could doubt less be removed by closer personal relations. Similar get acquainted" movements have been organized by other Japanese commercial associa- tions but apparently without marked success.
 Japanese shipping has been eS- pecially hard hit by the boycott The s hips of the Toyen Risen Kaisha. which formerly carried several hun dred Chinese in the steerage each trip. now seldom carry d single cit lzen of the new republic. Chinese freight has also been diverted from the Japanese lines whenever possible Chinese coolies and Chinese commer- "ial concerns of large influence are lending a hand alike in the boycott
 one of the features of the home made goods movement which may bc of great interest to the United States Is the effort to stimulate cotton manufacturing and cotton growing Japan formerly supplied large quan- titles of coarse cotton goods to China The Chinese now hope to supply this themselves and are striving to interest capital in the en- larSement of spinning works operat- inc in Shanghai and Hong Kong
 No reliable figures are available concerning the cotton manufactures in Japan.-but it is estimated that the number of spindles in the re- public varies from 90O.O00 to 1.2OO.- eeo- Limited quantities of coarse | cloth are made in nearly every prov inc- on hand looms. Coarse twist of foreign and home manufacture has been used in making this cloth. 1 Printed cloth, as well as plain. has l been made IT. this printing having been done chiefly on second hand 1 ! resses purchased in Japan. The | wooden looms used by the primitive i Chinese factories are mostly oper- 1 9ted by hand and the output of each ! loom of this character is about three | yards an hour. Machinery for gin | hing, spinning and weaving is mostly ! very crude and incapable of supply
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