Then on the night of May 6, the Minister of Education issued an Jcrder forbidding demonstrations on the following day, and instructing [the Government school principals to keep their students engaged with Nectares and classes. It was an unprecedented order, and one to be expected Toast from Chang Shih-chao; who entered the present Cabinet from the headship of the College of Agriculture, and is sup-jFosed to have had quite liberal leanings. Educationists and students were quite well disposed toward him, in view of is effects in fwarding plans for Boxer Indemnity ting arrears of salary
subsidies.
'The Government schools and colleges obeyed the order, but about 400 other students, from private and Christian schools, turned out. 'They tried ta hold a' meeting opposite the Central Park, on a plot public ground that could quite without interference with traffic.
Tt was also a suitable place for the evaporation of student enthu: When the proceasionists there, however, they found the police in possession, and the leaders of the parade were told that their rendezvous had been reserved for fire drill by the Peking brigade!
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