The Archive · 1926

Governments

The stddént.-propagandists last Friday started their tirade against British imperialism in connexion withthe Wanhsien Incident by holding" their. first. meeting ~on Thureday. afternoon at their headquarters in'New Chung Hus Road, Chapel, at which Yul Chi-yn, la student at Nanyang College presided. Several speeches were made on the incident by. various members of the student union, after which resolutions as to the action the Body should pursue were- passed, In their speeches. the "various members termed the action of the British Naval authorities as "un reasonable," ete, Tt was decided that a manifesto protesting against the British action should be pubished and demanded that the movements of British battleships be restricted in Chinese waters in the future, It was further decided that telegram be despatched to the Waichiaopu "in Peking and. the Canton Government urging that a protest in connexion with the affair be lodged with the British Minister:

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