On May 3 the Student Movem was a year old. During that p this mass manifestation ut national solidarity. in China stirred public opinion to a consciousness rarely known in this country. It succeeded in preventing the Government from signing a peace treaty in which the rights of China were to he sacrificed. It notified corrupt politicians and self-centred mili tarists that, if the will of China ever becomes sufficiently articulate. they must go. It won one potent victory; it met two distinct defeats. It organized 4,000,000 human be ings into a unit and it spurred on the millions of parents of these boys and girls to political activity. brought Peking home to ey and village where there was a school and it popularized the national and int tional affairs of the countr; It started and carried on a boycott against Japan, Japanese goods and Japanese ships which cannot altogether be neglected in a study of the financial crisis at present in that country, Tt stimulated a_ de sire for an independent. and inter gral China and made for greater ndship between the Chinese and the Anglo-Saxon republics of the West, Great Britain and America. students attended this meeting on May 4, each student carrying i white flag bearing a propagandistic inscription. Because Tsao Jp-lin, at that time Minister of Finance and munications, was believed to be the active leader of the Japanese cup in China, it was decided to march to his house. There the students met aot only Tsao, but Chang Chun-hsiang. the Chinese Minister to Japan, and a Japanese. friend. An autographed photograph of the Mikado was on the wall.
The students lost control of the situation, burned down the house and sent Minister Chang to the hospital. Thirty-two students wei arrested and the next day a gene strike of all the students in Peking was called. lent Hsu Shih-chang th pon issued a mandate forbidding the and dismissing the University. and the Minister of Chun-chang. May 6, the Peking Students Union was organized and a notice was sent to students throughout the country that similar action should diately be taken.
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