The local branch of the Kuomintang Party, according to reports yesterday in the Chinese press, is now strongly championing the cause of the local student unions in connexion with the proposed demonstra~ tions, which it is reported will be held on September 7.
The local Kuomintang leaders were yesterday reported to have sent a long letter to the Amalgamated Union of Street Unions in which it was stated that the people have suffered greatly in China as 'a result of the Boxer Protocol, since the Powers, in that document, took. over control of the Customs, allowing the Inspector-General to remain ina position to upset the political status of the country at any time, As a result of this, industries did not flourish and the Powers were allowed to garrison the capital. The people, said the letter, were striving to abolish the une qui treaties, because they realized that. this was the only way to preserve their existence as a nation. Tt asks the union, as the leader among the merchant class, to join in the move. ment on September 7.
'The Shanghai Students' Union continued yesterday their campaign Yor a country-wide demonstration on September 7 and sent two representatives to the Street Unions asking for their ce-operation, were receiving by the vice-chairman, who is alleged to have promised them his support and stated that the country could not expect to thrive until the unequal throaties were abolished. It was planned that representatives of both the National and Shanghai Students' Unions should be sent to various public organizations every day until the consent and support of all had been obtained,
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