Oct. 19.
Ir seems a long time since much was heard of the students.
Summer vacations and summer heat have no doubt had a good deal to do with this, and in Shanghai one erstwhile prominent leader and fomenter of troubles appears to have got into the bad books of his once enthusiastic supporters. Yet there seas, one remembers, a sort of revolution in Peking during July, which for a while promised great things and might have been expected to excite a show of energy on the students' part. The most obvious explanation of their quietude is the dead failure of the attempted general strike in April. Following upon that fiasco, the student organizations, at least in Shanghai, decided to recast their whole policy, to abandon their—_ direct-actionist political efforts and to devote themselves to educational work throughout the country, the distribution of student literature in all ranks and especially promoting free schools, where the students would be the teachers in their spare time, for the labouritig classes, How much connexion may exist between this resolution and the remarkable posters displayed by the Changsha students on the "Double Ten'' festival, of which our correspondent sends us an abstract to-day, we cannot tell. But the reiterated appeals to the working classes through all these posters tell a significant tale which, without any wish to be alarmist, we cannot disregard. Whether our correspondent has arranged his excerpts in the order in which the posters were to have been carried in procession, we do not know. But the rising intensity of their wording will at once be noticed. In the first we find farmers and artisans given the place of honour above merchants and scholars, a note-~worthy change, as our correspon-
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