Chang Shih-chao bad got in touch with Chu Shen, the Chief of Police, Jand while the students were engaged in losing their tempers over his palpable lie, a posse of police were hurrying tothe scene. They did not Jarrive before the students had Faow Oce Own Peking, May 11.
Had it not been for some in-5 Jexcusable bungling on the part of the Government, the acting Minister of Education," Chang Shih-chao particularly, May 7 would have passed off without incident, and the subsequent—demonstrations rioting would not have occurred. But the Government had been in a state of funk ever since May 4, when the police were instructed to maintain watch over the schools, for fear the students should attempt repeat their 1919 performance, against the last Anfu Government. At least one of the victims of that affair also absented himself from Peking for the day. Nothing occurred, but student memory was quickened by the sight of policemen prowling around school premises.
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