Some months ago we heard a great deal of the Students' Union and its doings. It was one of the main bulwarks of the anti-Japanese propaganda scheme. It organized processions and engaged lecturers to tell the poor unlettered man the street his duty towards his country. Its members coerced merchants into burning their stocks of Japanese-made goods and for which they had paid cash, without in any way stipulating that their financial losses should be made good. The representatives of the Union formed themselves into self-appointed examiners of the stocks of shops and the cargoes of boats so that no true patriot should soil his honour by inadvertently purchasing any articles that might have been manufactured in the Mikado's dominions.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.