The Archive · 1925

Inflammatory Banners

When the occured were removed from the station, the whole student body followed, the mood in which they regarded the proceedings beig sufficiently expressed by inscripon the pennants and banners which they carried.

Here are. some of them:

"The Japanese have torn our fog "Oppose the in-of wharfage dues.".

"Oppose the construction of "roads on Chinese territory."......"Oppose the printed matter by-law."...."Let students who have! "Cancel all un-

Restore all foreign Settlements to China." It will be observed that these slogans departed a very long way from alleged injustices to mill operatives; in fact. covering the whole ground of agitation which is the special care and policy of such bodies as the National and Shanghai Students' Unions. Nearly every Chi educational establishment in Shanghai was represented in the crowd, prominent among them being the Shanghai Lecturing Group, the Shanghai College of Law, Nanyang College, and the Shanghai University, an institution which came into Prominetice some months the "academy of Bolshevism, Shanghai branches of the Kuomintang was also out in strong force.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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