Hangchow, Jan, 12.
'The native papers give a good deal of space to the fracas between the Students' and Teachers' Unions on Sunday afternoon. A long letter is addressed by the former to the latter protesting in strong terms at the treatment of their students' deputation sent, in accordance with custom, to listen to the debate of their own teachers on a subject of vital importance to them as a student body.
It will be remembered that a general strike of the students was to be called if the masters refused to do so. As it had got abroad that these meant to respond to the promise of the Board of Education, namely, that the Peking matter would be settled at once on the resumption of duty by the masters, deputations from' every school in the city were present at the Sunday gathering. A storm of indignation arose when (seeing the students) a bell was rung to call off the meeting. Feeling still further ran high when police were called in to restore order. The letter dwells on the injustice of such action without provazation: the deputations. it being pointed out, showing no sign of making a disturbance. There is now nothing left, it adds, than for the Union to call for the general strike determined on, if the Teachers' Union failed to befriend them in this. a common cause. The teachers have all resumed work.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.