This morning before nine o'clock there was a small bonfire on the open space where the yamen used to stand in pre-Taiping days. It is now the drill ground for constabulary and Agricultural College students. The items burnt were those belonging to the students in the Agricultural College and were composed of towels, washbsins and other articles which were declared to be Japanese. The pile was only a small-one, but doubtless some got a little satisfaction from jumping' on an upturned enamelled washbasin until it got crushed. After the students left, a number of boys and men turned over the debris to see if anything was worth taking aw: I saw several students haranguing small batches of people, mostly women and children. When I asked some men the reason of this, I was told "Japan would not give back Shantung (Tsingtao) and Formosa.""
The man told me that the one-time Viceroy of Formosa who resisted the French landing in the Franco-Chinese war—Liu Ming-chwan—had brought two Formosans back with him to Liuanchow but they soon died. As members of the Liu family still live here, Formosa is a more tangible place to the people than most other places.
Lerring orr Stes.
The whole batch of public schoolboys have been parading the street' most of the day with flags of all sizes with the usual inscriptions about "our shame," ete, ete. Evidently the local Chamber of Commerce last night refused to consider the destruction of Japanese goods in stock. If they did, I'm afraid they would not be able to buy other material, for stocks are not small at present.
I think so long as the students) confine themselves to parading, haranguing small companies and burning their own goods, they will be allowed to let off steam. The whole number parading this morning would not amount to 200, and the half of them under 15 years of age. There were quite a lot at the tail end of the procession who could hardly be seen for the regulation school cap. The Agricultural Schoo! students were dressed in white for the occasion. They were drilling and racing in black four days ago at some place. The rest were in their black drill suits.
Tae Mass Uswoven.
A couple of thousand went to see the show. Many got tired and returned home or to work long before the burning was over. It is possible a few were stirred a little but the mass was unmoved. Business men kept at home to deal with any untoward event.
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