Peking, Aug. 23.
The militant girl students of the Normal University for Women who have been holding that institution in a state of siege since last May, detri both the Binistry of Education and the local authorities, were finally removed yesterday, following several days of frantic final resistance to the Ministry's order.
Only a dozen die-hards remained, but they had to be carried from the building forcibly by fe end ants sent by the Ministry of Education, while police guards prevented the bey students from effecting their rescue.
The girls put up an Amazon-ike resistance, but they were outnumbered by" special squads of female attendants and were borne shrieking to motor-cars and conveyed to the Normal School's supplementary branch. Here they are well cared for but they continue) to resist and now threaten to hunger-strike. It took three hours and 10 automobiles to clear the school of the dozen recalcitrants, while a great crowd watched the proceedings with amusement.
Female "Die-hards"
It_may be remembered that the Northal School trouble started ea last May, when radical students staged a "humiliation day" disorder, assaulted the Prineigal, Bliss Yang! Ying-yn and demanded her di missal, owing to the strict discipline she kept, Miss Yang Suspended six of the offender, whereupon, the students locked up her office, barred her from the Building and placed the school in a state of siege against all the authorities. Subsequently they announced that they would take over the operation of the school themselves under a committee [teachers friendly to their movement.
Following numerous vain efforts to induce the students to leave the school the Minietsy of Eduration ordered them to be removed August, stating that it was intended to cut off the light, water and food.
The die-hards refused and called upon the various student organizations to rally to their assistance. They also inserted announcements in the Chinese Press repudiating the Ministry of Education's authority jand denouncing the Minister, Mr. Chang Shih-chao.
The Ministry then declared the school dissolved and appointed a commission of four to take over the institution" aca reorganize it.
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