The National Students Federation has issued a manifesto urging all Unions throughout the country to resume their studies, The response to this order has been immediate.
The manifesto, which the Federation has issued, recites the wrongs which have been done the country by various traitors, and after outlining the history of the present strike, points out they had received no material support, only sympathetic messages. It then proceed:
the ever-wicked Government, knowing that nothing could check the onward movement of the students has begun an attempt to destroy the entire educational system at its very root. It arrested the students. It sealed up the premises of the Students' Unions. It dismissed the " students from their schools. It stopped the strikers from securing their promotion in class work. Above all, it threatened to close up all the public schools throughout the country unless the students in them resumed their work immediately.
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"By so doing, the Pel ment would kill two birds with one stone.
It would secure all the educational funds of the nation and utilize them for military penses. Its plan is crafty. Its motive is most wicked.
"Should we continue on our original policy, we would be like the silkworm, building our own prison cells for our enemies. We would be falling into their trap. We are aware of the fact that the educational institutions in Hunan are now but grass growing sites. We are pained to think of the consequences!
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