Nanking, Mar. 12.
That the students of South-eastern University are in no mood to wel-Jcome a new head of the institution was demonstrated in spectacular fashion on Tuesday. Mr. Wu Ten-hou, newly appointed President to succeed Dr. P. W. Kuo, who was dismissed by the Government early jin January, arrived quietly in Nanking to take up his new position. It appears that he had received a surances from, some friends in the institution that he would be cordially received. But no sooner had Ihe posted a notice on Tuesday morn-jing announcing his presence and saying that the institution would go ahead without change of teachfers, than the students formed up [frostily, and surrounded the - Pre-[sident's office. They broke in the Jdoor and the more excitable thr: books-and inkbottler. Mr. Wu slightly injured in the face. For few minutes mob rule seemed ready to prevail, but the better: judgment of the student leaders: asserted itself and they began to discuss terms. The students declared they would not go to class as long as Mr. Wu was on the campus and Jagreed to let him, leave quietly upon the assurance that he would not return and try to assume the Presidency again. During the fracas, the gates of the University were idosed and no police allowed to An amusing feature was the jaffdavit which the students secured from a doctor of the Drum Tower Hospital that the physical injury inflicted on Mr. Wa was inconse-
Early in the afternoon, Wu left with much loss of [figurative face, the students sending. faun off with firecrackers! What serious-minded friends of the Uniity fear ix that this hot-headed Jaction may precipitate a crisis with the Central Government, through which the progress of the Univerity may be seriously crippled.
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