Ir will be remembered that during the summer of 1919 out of the anger over the Shantung decision at the Paris Peace Conference grew the Student Movement. The tactics of this organization included boycotting Japanese goods and strikes in the schools whenever the students were dissatisfied with the 4
Government. The strike during the spring of 1919 had been a great success morally, and had some political results. In January the students used the power which they had developed to force the Government to pay salaries to the teachers of Peking, whose payments had long been overdue. On January 9 occurred in Tientsin what has become known as the Funatso incident. Mr. Funatso, Japanese Consul-, General, protested to Mr. Huan, Yung-liang, Commissioner of} Foreign Affairs, against the continuance of the boycott. He also; protested against the election ofij Pien as Chairman of the:
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