Peking, June 4
Newspapers this morning deal very folly with yesterday's students'demonstration. Apparently an attempt [vias made late in the afternoon by Jsmall isolated band of students to effect an entrance into the Legation Quarter through the east gate, but the guards had little trouble in keeping them out, 'The demonstration, which was really reniarkable for its orderly be~ haviour, in view of the students' unsuccessful effort to gain entrance into the Legation Quarter, is like= to be repented to-day.
All the morning the students have been streaming towards the Centrat Park, where a meeting has been Jarranged to take place and future plans discussed, The Yenching American Christian University faculty have circulated a statement impliedly in support of their students' demonstration yesterday. It also expresses profound [disquiet at recent happenings in Sh-Janghai. "We deplore the shooting of the students, and wish to pro—test against what appears to be too great reliance upon violent measures to meet the present disorders, We appeal to the foreign governments concerned to do everything in their power to facilitate a thorough and ma partial inquiry into the whole eicumstances of the incident with promise of such redress as the results of the inquiry may call for."
The statement goes on to urge the need for conciliation on the part of newspapers, remarking that th ein-[cident reveals "a grave underlying situation of estrangement and misunderstanding which it should be the purpose of all who are interested in future Chinese and foreign rotutionships entirely to change, is probable that on the foreign sid= the heavier responsibility for this lack of understanding rests." This could be undertaken, the statement proceeds, by "readiness to revise the treaties which have long been out of date and by actively working to put [Chinese and foreign relations on a basis of goodwill rather than on forcible retention of resented privily rakhan, the Soviet En-following note to the Waichaiopu regarding the re-feet trouble at Shanghai: " Having learned with feelings of profound grief of the shooting of several tens fof Chinese workers and Shanghai, I wish to express Chinese people feelings of deepes! sympathy and sorrow which are cor~ tainly shared by the people of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
have the honour to request Your Excellency to accept the express sion of my condolences and convey nem to the bereaved families."
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