CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919 — Page 667

Enclosure in Acting Consul-General at Canton's No.80

dated 3rd October, 1919.

*72 Hong Merchants Newspaper, 3rd October, 1919"

(Translation)

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STUDENTS FORM TEN MEN CORPS.

The Middle and Upper Grade Schoolboys' Union, since the

procession and demonstration of the 27th ultimo in which all

circles joined, have been sparing no efforts to promote the

Japanese boycott. On several days in succession representatives

of the various schools have met to discuss the position, and

have expressed the opinion that the action of the unpatriotic

companies in recently invoking the aid of the authorities to

devise means of suppressing the students' movement shews that,

like madmen, they have lost all sense of propriety, and that

unless they are sternly dealt with they will not realise the

error of their ways. A few determined representatives have been

appointed from each school, in the first place to form a Ten

Men Corps to appoint detectives to watch the action of un-

scrupulous merchants; and it has been decided that each school

shall daily appoint in rotation five men whose duty it will be

to keep track of the importation of Japanese goods, and five

men to proceed every evening respectively to various crowded

localities, and make speeches at different spots, with the

object of stirring up popular feeling, so that general progress

is made.