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STUDENTS STILL AGITATING,

TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1931.

CHINA PEACE.

MR. WANG CHING-WEI'S

SUGGESTION.

the

Shanghal, Dec. 11. With

a vlow to settling the Shanghai, Dec. 11. Resenting the Police measures in about peace in China, Mr. Wan

Manchurian dispute and bringing arreating their lenders, 5,000

Buggcated students including numerous under- Ching-wel has graduates of the universities, be- Salvation Conference to take the

organization

National of A sieged the Municipal Government place of the Fourth Kuomintang Building in the

the native City and surrounded the place for twenty

Congress. Mr. Wang in a long hours from Wednesday evening to statement addressed to the Non-

Iraday morning. The

king and Canton leaders urgen students subsequently selected Ave delegates

ates that representatives of the two

Governments who interviewed the Mayor of repre

and delogates Shanghal, Mr. Chang Chun, and

the public bodies representing demanded that the authorities in-hould be invited to participate in

thin mediately release the

meeting which ho student.

should hold its preliminary Res.

Shanghai.

Thur

arrested

The excitement of the students was brought to high pitch and they attempted to wreck the Municipal

sions at

Bays

Complicated Situation. obstacles confronting the Fourth Emphasizing the numerous

in the nick of time by the n though the preliminary popce con- Kurcumintang Na-wai duyo that as- Mr. Ching-wel

pypear-

Ance of the Mayor, Mr. Chun, who addressed the students in tears promising to dismiss the Police Commissioner, Chen Hs taung, and to resign himself. aladent moh subsequently dis- persed,

The

erences were held in Shanghai and resolutions wore passed 11- been approved by a section of the fortunately the decisions had not Southern leadera who insisted on the

of Generalissimo retirement

do.

Оп the same evening the student Chiang Kai-shek bofore tho. agitators indulged in other parture of the southern Congress

riotous nets beluding the wreck- Ing of a railway track on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, The

from Canton for Nan- Meanwhile this hopeless had been made more stubborn

was repaired before dawn in time to avoid an accident.

incident was observed and the lined

by the

to

move

A group of students later sembled on the railway truck and d-fies all police efforts them. Consequently The express from Nanking siderably delayed.

Was con-

attitude of Nanking in insisting that Chiang

iang Kai-shek should only resign after the final session of the Cor

Congress at Nanking. It le feared that a deadlock will evening be reached

if the

existing situation is allowed to continue. Mr. Wang Ching-wel concludes by saying that if the lenders of the two Governments are willing to uttend this

National Conference at Nanking he is most willing to draft the regulations governing Its convention.

More Student Petitioners. Over 300 students from suchow schools assembled at the Hauchow Station on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway yesterday to await the arrival of students from Peking and Tientain to join them to pro- ceed to Nanking to prosent puti- tions tr the Government. A similar movement is taking place at Pengfew, another city on the same railway

A Hangchow Incident, Hundreds of students paraded in the streets yesterday at Hangehow, the demonstration culminating in an attack on the Provincial Govern- ment Building following an abor tive attempt to seek an audience with the Kiangsu Covernment off- rinda. The angry studente aler directed their attacks on the Educa tional Department and severely as saulted Secretary. The students al conflicted with the Police on their way

back to the schools, re- sulting in

minor injuries

some among the students.

A Nanking massage states that 2,000 students from the Peking and Tientain universities arrived at yesterday and they have anned to present a petition to the

Delegates Arrive.

נננ

the Pre- here con-

and

The four Southern peace envoys, Messrs. Sun Fo. Eugene Chen, Li Wen-fan and C. C. Wu, who loft Hongkong sident Coolidge, Arrived yesterday afternoon

and ferred with Messrs. Wang Ching- wei and Chow Lu at the residence of Mr. Sun Fo for two hours yes terday evening. Later the same night General Chen Ming-shu and Mesara. Fu Ping-sheung Cheng Hung-nien arrived joined in the discussion.

Interviewed by newspaper respondents after the meeting, Mr. Sun Fo antd that they had merely exchanged views with the Nanking envoys and no important decision had been reached.

The Southern envoys conveyed to the Southern Nanking representatives the Can- ton demand for the retirement of Chiang Kai-shek to which General Chen Ming-shu replied that while

and

C01

Government 10-day. These thou. thi Kui-shek dld not obiect to

demand he desired two high

two, to

to take Over tho

the National Government

sands of demonstrators will be re-offeinla selected by Canton to inforced by a still bigger

foric

proceed to Nanking immediately from Shanghal in a day or

administration when a

street demonstration of great will take place on Monday next at Council and the Executive Yuan Nanking. The accommodation of

of during the transitional period all schools and university premises pending the final election at the at Nanking in being taxed to Fourth Congress meeting at Nan- capsicity as quarters have to be find for the Peking und Tientsin visitors.

Railways Blocked.

king.

Mr. Sun Fo said that the Canton leaders had not been able to decide on the aelection of these Nanking, Dee. 7. two men, and consequently the The patriotic ardour of the final meeting of the Congress will students ni Nanking, Peking, have to be postponed for another Shanghai and other points has in-week or so. terrupted traffle on two of China's Mr. Hu Haa-min's Secretary, main railway systems--the Shang- Mr. Li Wen-fan, who was among hai-Nanking and the ientsin- Pukow rallways.

It has also led the Foreign Minis-

ter of the National Government carefully to conceal his where abouts, so that he may avoid listen- lug to the impossible demands of the students and, perhaps, the in- juring not only of his diguity but his

the Canton envoys, hinted to the newspaper representatives that he was most confident that the man to succeed Chiang Kai-shek at Nanking would not be a member of the Canton Government but one who would be approved by the Cantonese faction.

the

To settle the dispute regarding This morning the students were

ten additional congress ment- bers elected by Mr. Wang Ching- to have entled at the Foreign Office wel and the 250 retired congress to force an interview with Dr. Wel- delegates in Shanghai, the leaders lington Koo, but the meeting did have made a vegestion to admit not take place. The Foreign Min- these ten offcials in the Executivo ister was out and, for one reason or committees, agresing simultane- another, the students did not pre-ously to allow Nanking to

elect nent their cards. However, oven ten mors members making up the had they been able to make their total on each side to 34 members. projected call, there would have Mr. Hu Han-min In Colony. been no one to receive them, for the

Unknown to even his close entire staff of the Foreign Ofice associates, Mr. Hu Han-min was absent, conspicuously 0.

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