The National Students' Federation sent a telegram to the Peking Government on Sunday giving notice that unless a satisfactory reply to their demands is received within four days, all the students of the country, numbering ap proximately 3,000,000 will im mediately" go on strike. The students demand that all direct negotiations with Japan on the Shantung issue shall cease and that the Peking Government shall publish and repudiate all secret treaties made with Japan or any other nation, Copies of the letter have been circulated to Student Unions in various parts of the country urging unity and patriotism.
A translation of the letter follows "Peking President and Cabinet.
"We have for a long time known that you are traitors. The Shantung question is still pending. The Fukien question has not been settled and in this you are letting the enemy bluff you. You let the military and the police control the funds of the nation and scare the citizens. You know that secret treaties and loans are detrimenta! to the nation, yet you keep oe making them. You are trying t> open direct negotiations for the re turn of Shantung in spite of the opposition from all classes. The time is now important and the country is in a critical situation. We students have been working hard in order to try to save the country but you are trying your best to ruin it. We have already manifest ed our disapproval of these things in our previous manifestos, but yo1 have shut your eyes and closed your ears. We want to show that we disapprove of your methods.
A Finan Waryise-
"We demand that you disclose all secret treaties, agreements, ani loans, that you cancel them all—whether they be with Japan or other nations—that all direct negotiations with Japan for the return of Shantung cease, and we give you four days in which to do these things in order that the nation might not perish but be saved.
"If you still delay, you will be branded as traitors like Li of Korea who sold his country. We students cannot see our country sold. We may be weak but we will oppose you. You must not think that simply because you have foreign aid and military strength you can bluff the citizens. This will not be tolerated.
"Think over this matter carefully and let us have an immediate reply.
"If a satisfactory reply is not given within four days then the whole student body of China witl strike.
5 Sruvents' Federation."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.