The Archive · 1927

Demand for Publicity

'The Shanghai District' Kuomintang'has passed resolutions in connection with the Nanking incident.

follows:

1, That arrangements: be made to hold a memorial meeting to those: Killed in Nanking'on November 22; 2 That lecture groups be! organized to deliver open-abr lectures fin connection with the incident.

Members of the Students' Union entertained number of journalists to 14 tea-party at the Palais Cafe on Saturday, when one of the: members, ave an. account of-the shooting in cident in Nanking, and urged th press-men'to give the matter due. publicity and to demand anvequitable.

'Commerce on Saturday afternoon, moat of those present being members, of the Kuomintang, in welcome to the members of the' Centrat Executive Committee and the Supervisory. Committee of the party, the chairman, Mr. Kao Yin-tso, expressed the hope that they all would exert: their utmost efforts in the ex. termination of the Communists and reactionaries who were responsible for the massacre of innocent people during the meeting held in Nanking last week to celebrate the victories of the Nationalist Armies over the Northern militarists and Tang Seng-

The following resolutions were passed after they had been discus The Nanking branch. of the Nationalist Students: Union has. circulated a lengthy telegram in the course of which they describe the incident. One hundred thousand people were present at a celebration of the victories of the Nationalist Armies, they allege, when. soldiers. and police surrounded the place and opened fire with rifles and machine guns. Four persons were killed outright, and more than a hundred were seriously wounded. Those who received minor wounds were legion. That such an affair should have occurred under the Nationalist flog by persons professing. to accept the: teachings of the late Dr. Sun Yate sen, is a disgrace and an outrage which even the Northern militarists 1. That a manifesto be issued supporting the Central Executive Committee and the Supervisory Committee and refusing to recognize would not have thought of doing. The students demand the full punishment of.those who dared to commit. such a massacre,

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