tied in 1908 the Government of China hag been very weak, and the students of nearly all Government Schools nave considera? themselves. above the law. Again and again they have! sone to the magistrate's yamen, broken his windows, overturned his palanquin, and cursed him to his face. They have driven their teachers and principals from the schools, and re-oned at other times to accept teae rs who have been appointed, May 9 the students in Peking mobbed the Minister of Education's: residence and destroyed his furni-ure, because he had refused to allow the students a holiday for anti-Japanese propaganda. Early in June they mobbed the Foreign Minister's: office and put him to flight. They sve come to look upon such condi. ions as natural and right. A great. price will have to be pai before the students can be brought under dis-line again. outraged the! whole student community in China when, in the Shanghai Settlement, riotous students were treated being under the same laws as ordi ary people.
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