A development in China closely wrapped up with the country's failure at Versailles to secure the restoration of the German rights in Shantung to China, was the student movement. It is a fact to be noticed with a certain amount of interest that the question of the unification of the North and South produced no such agitation. On May 4, when it became known that China had failed to secure her aims at the European Conference, students in Peking held a mass meeting at which resolutions were passed against signing the Peace Treaty. This was followed by an attack upon the house of Tsao Ju-lin, which was burned, and shortly afterwards ¢the students went on strike demanding the dismissal of Tsao Ju-lin, Lu Cheng-yn and Chang Tung-hsiang whom they accused of sacrificing the country's interests in favour of Japan. The agitation was intensified by the arrest of a number of the students and they were only released as a result of the continued agitation of the scholars.
Successful in obtaining these releases the students continued their agitation for the dismissal of the three notables and at the same time set afoot a strenuous boycott of Japanese goods. The movement spread rapidly and by the beginning of June a similar movement was strongly progressing in most of the cities of China and Shanghai, where there were clashes with the police and the shopkeepers closed their doors. The situation was alleviated somewhat by the announcement on June 11 that Tsao, Chang and Lu had been dismissed. On
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