The scholastic agitators, having had their fling at Griffith John, are now bestowing their attentions upon Wesley College. Last Sunday morning, there of the expelled ringleaders of Inst term's disorders. boldly entered the school and diss tributed a number of rudely cyclostyled pamphlets. This paper accused of lack of patriotism all those who had returned to the school this tepm, and threatened violence against any of them or of the teachers who ventured out on the street.
In the afternoon, one of the ex-students came into' the school, and persuaded half a dozen of the boys to go out for a walk with him. Having led them about half " mi along the road which rons past a big temple in the neighbourhood, persuaded them to where they were set upon by a dozen never-do-wells who there in ambush. The boys were all more or less rough-handled, and one of them ws jured rather severely. 'Two of them were taken upstairs and compelled to sign a document promising that} they would leave the school at once. Since then, more threatening letters have been' received chiefly directed against certain members of the staff. Police protection has been obtained for the school, but there in a certain amount of apprehension as to what may happen next. and as the Chinese newspapers contain information about another outbreak at Shanghai it is likely to Here is what has been board and put opposite] isos. "Prepare to we have suffered from the deceitful persecution of England and Japan, and simply cannot give way Jo step. All we can do is to prepare our strength to fight them to the death.
I mentioned recently that the state of affairs has its honours. 'The man who has been most instrumental ing these things has a sister studying in the C.M.S. Girls' Boarding School in this very ity. T hear that he is saying that nobody backs him up, and he has to do it all. He intends to leave off. Although we see the results they do not bother us very much. I went into the city' the other day to the bookshop to find a good Chinese novel. The trouble with these books ie that they tend to have such small print, While T was looking round for a better print, a book with quite good print, and in four columns was put into'my hands. "How will this do?" "Excellent" said I. The title looked interesting.
It turned out to be a translation! of an English novel by,—the translator informs one in his preface, m famous English writer, There are things that show how! impossible it is for the Chinese to live up to this absurd boycott.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.