Mar.
Refusing the requests of the Governor-General, Mr. Dwight Davis, and the President of the Senate, Senor Manuel Quezon, to return'to their studies, the Manila' students now on strike are con inning their rebellion and indulge ing in further violence, Communist agitators, Jong known! to be semi-active in a quiet way, came out openly today, some of them addressing 3,000 students in. the Walled City for the purpose "of protecting the rights of Filipino: students, trampled upon by the for~ eigners whom we are feeding and who do not know how to appreciate the hospitality of our people."
It is estimated in reliable quarters that 10,000 Filipinos of both Communism during the past, three years, while at least 2v agitators: with direct connections with Moscow are known to be working in the Philippines.
Mar. 5.
Police and school officials and the Insular authorities have been unable: to check the strangest rebellion of students ever recorded in the history. of the Philippines. The revolt came to a climax to-day, when the parents of 6,300 high school pupils who are on strike joined their sons and daughters and the members of the City Council in deciding to appeal to the Governor-General, Mr. Dwight Davis, and the President of the Senate, Senor Manuel Quezon, to grant their demands.
The student strike, which started! towards the middle of last, month, arose over alleged derogatory and insulting remarks made by Mabelo Brummitt, an American teacher of senior class mathematics. The students claimed that she called) them "savages, simpering idiots, [contemptible cads and half-civilized.
Communists took advantage of the "the insult inflicted on the Filipino people by the eatspaw of American imand disturbances followed.
The students, besides demanding the dismissal of Mabele Brurmitt are further demanding the dismissal)
Dr. Alejandro Albert, the Acting. /Seeretary of Public Instruction; of Dr. Luther Bowley, Director of Education, and one high school principal." They also ask for the reinstatement of four student strikers who were expelled for mi behaviour.
No statement on the situation has! yet been issued by the Governor-General or Senor Manuel Quezon Jand the school authorities are standing pat in regard to the dismissal the four students, Nineteen students have been arrested so far, the charges against them ranging from ace to resisting arrest and carrying concealed weapons.
Another student was knifed to-' day, but was not injured seriously, while a young girl was maltreated front of a high school where she was attempting to attend her classes. She was kissed, hugged and slapped.
Several other students.suffered bruises_as the result of a generall miélée in front of the West High School.
The Communists, full of zeal and] activity daring the earlier stages of the strike, have now dropped out of sight, apparently frightened at the publicity given to them in the newspapers, which devoted much space to. describing in detail their. activities "the way of subversive pro-
Members of the Municipal Council] fare taking advantage of the opportunity afforded them: by the strike.
Furthermore, the pupils of two more schools' have joined the strikers.
'A young girl waiting for "her parents to escort her home was mobbed in the grounds of a high school to-day, the police interfering when the victim was nearly stripped naked, However, no further arrests have been made' and no one was injured to-day, 'Although Communist agitators active during the earlier stages of the strike, are now keeping under Sonie members of the Muni" cipal' Council are openly inciting the strikers. Further, they are being held responsible for one additional school joining the rebel= ion, The parents of the strikers are still insisting on the alleged rights of the students, but others, among whom are the majority of Manila citizens, have been roused over the lack of' decisive action on the part of the authorities Reuter, Moscow'
Influence Denied Manila, Mar, 6, th between 6,000 and 10,0 Manila youngsters' still stubborn! refusing to attend their high school classes, Manila's great "School continued at a stalemate to-day.
In spite of ridiculous tales cabled abroad, and relayed back to Manila, to the effect that "reds" are stigating the trouble, there is no 1 illusion to that effect because entire course of the difficulty has been so apparent to the public The pupils are animated purely. what they consider n most laudable spirit of patriotic nationalism. Originally they objected allegedly anti-Filipino American teacher. After there had been an investigation, she was discharged. Four pupils of North High were expelled because they insisted on Teading a strike during the period of the investigation. The present which has spread to all. the ig not animated by Moscow do sive to get reinstatement four pupil observers here consider the to be like the literary figure known as Peck's Bad Boy; in. need of spankings. But since the Filipino parents are supporting their young sters in their rebellion against school authority, no spankings are possible, Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate, has declined to Jcomment. on the situation, Sergio Osmena, president pro tem. of the 'Senate,' said to-day, the "legislative leaders are not. inter fering."
Wild-eyed stories of disorders, stabbings, Communism, and 89,00, entirely. fack, confirmation. of any sort. The whole thing is a simple case of.the pupils supporting demands of their four. expelled colleagues for, reinstatement..in school.
Council members at the, strikers because of Filipino patriotism, but it.is'now evident that the councillors "orb," at the present time, "runing around circles and not knowing where to head in," as one observer summed, the situation—United Press,
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