The following ix a trunslation of w lcaftel which Chinese students were found distributing in Szechuen Road on Sunday. Its inflammatory nature needs no comment. This is the first manifestation of the anti-Japanese boycott of the kind that has been brought to our notice in Shanghai, Brothers! How is it that we are called "slaves of a lost countly?? How do you relish that your country is a lost one? Or do you not yet know that you have reached this condition? Look at India! A land trodden! under the oppressor's foot. A' people harried to and fro by' (strangers) others, whose very thought and action, every word and smile is controlled by others. Treated, in short, Jike oxen and horses.
Still more Tike Korea under Japanese control, strict and oppressive, where the people are but tools to be used, or to be weighed to determine the amount of metal they contain. I[f they have a meeting they charge them with conspiracy. If they write letters of their hardships they charge them with plotting to overturn the regulations. Those they determine to kill, they kill them off. Those they condemn to prison, they cast into the dungeons. They are so treated that they dare no longer live in their own native. land, but flee to other countries and hide themselves, fugitives with no home, in countless numbers.
Of a truth their misery is extreme, so that not only do we shrink from beholding it, but we are also unwilling even to speak of it. Alas! Such dread calamity is now threatening us! Japan has forced us to agree to the " Twenty-one Demands." Is it not so? Are they not forcibly seizing every trading centre for their own trade? Are they not bringing their gunboats to every one of our ports They are seize ing our mines and working ther They are taking up their residence in every place where they choose. And as if that were not enough they want our officials to invite them to assist in carrying on the administration of the country. Our soldiers invite them to teach them their drill.
Brothers! Consider these things! Does it not mean that they will later on forcibly seize' our national resources (wealth), obtain command of our armies, and get possession of our country?
Is it still possible for us to escape such national disaster? Must we not therefore resist the death these Twenty-one Demands? Not a single one of them must we acknowledge. Japan is now unwilling to_return fo us Port Arthur and Dairen, but is trying to force every one of the 21 points on us. Brothers, if we do not now raise the issues of life and death and fight Japan even to the point of death—When shall we?
Nirgpo residents of Shanghai Association, Scholars of the 2nd, Public School, print and publish' this manifesto.
Woosune Road on Monday night was the scene of a disorderly affray, in which five or six shots were fired. A 26-year-old Chinese, Kyi Pau-ching, said to be a theatre proprietor in Chapei, and now in hospital suffering from serious bullet wounds in the face and thigh, stated that he was passing up Woosung Road at about 8.50, after visiting a gambling resort in the See Gee Bai Ka. He found himself in the midst of a brawling crowd which emerged from an alleyway off Woosung Road. In passing through them a young Chinese suddenly faced him, pulled out a revolver, fired at and wounded him. He does not know why he should have been attacked, being, he believes, unknown in that locality, Woosung Road shopkeepers profess to be equally ignorant of the cause of the affair.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.