The authorities apparently feared tremendous explosion of anti Japanese sentiment; had they pos sessed any sort of intelligence system, they would have realized that the principal subject of interest then to the private schools ws ow to be included among the bene-fies of the Boxer Indem tion scheme recently this side of the proposed proceedings, and they marched off in high dudgeon to Coal Hill, where Feng /Ya-hsiang's soldiers allowed them ruption. The principal subject at this meeting was the action of the Government in refusing them permission to meet opposite the Central Park, and resolutions of protest were passed. It was then decided to try to. see the Minister of Education, but a call at the Ministry produced the response that Chang /Shih-chao.was at home, and not in hhis office Off the 400 marched for Chang's residence, and here the students were told that he was the Ministry. There he was in rath, and had he faced his would-Ihe interlocutors, the situation might have been smoothed over. But the bungling continued, vented their spleen on Chang's furniture. In the—subsequent métée, the students suffered many Lroken heads, and 18 of the rowdy were taken into custody. The of fatality, a student named Ling, died from over-excitement, [been found out, stages of consumption when he jof jed the procession, and looked on at the fray from the outskirts of the But his death, together with the fact of the arrest of the 18 students, incensed the whole of the student, tody in Peking. The Government students would not be restrained any longer; they decided to stage a monster parade on Saturday, the anniversary of the acceptance of the Demands,
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