To the Editor of the "NonrH-Cmiwa Datty News."
May I scck the hospitality'
valuable space of your esteemed journal to comment very briefly on the deplorable outcome of the students' demonstrations yesterday afternoon, being very anxious as I do to present the viewpoint of Chinese public opinion concerning. this delicate matter in connexion with which Mr. Fong Chu-pa, Vi Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, did any way exaggerate when he that atmosphere is heavily a) case. The students -have in the past months exchanged freely tokens of sympathy with the labourers, the form-for's aim being to educate the latter a means of reducing illiteracy nd_eliminating ignorance of the I problems of the nation. When they held their memorial service to unify the students' sorrow over the death of Koo Tseng-hung who was recently killed by the Japanese in connexion with the cotton mill strike, they were much antagonized bby the action of the Municipal Polics in arresting six of their number while the service was in progress They felt that they had a grievance against the Settlement Police authorities and wanted to air' it by means of a demonstration la the form of a lecturing campaign in putting speakers at places where traffic is thick and where the attention of the public is easily secured. They knew they would be arrested, but that did not matter for the news: papers would have to print the whole story and say why they held the demonstration, (2) THe case oF tHe Pottce. The case of the Municipal Police has been explained comprehensively. in the statement given out by the office of the Commissioner of Police last night. The Police fired at the mob because it was in danger of be-the preservation of the peace and/f. good order of the locality occupied the mob it had no alternative but 40 shoot and the shooting was therefore "justified." There is every inication that the affair would become a thorny diplomatic issue, and then the "Police would have to parties concerned that dealing with the student-orators" was handled tact. fully and that real shooting and shooting into the air was amply warranted on this occasion.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.