were on foot early, covering the streets with written posters denouncing the Christian Church and calling for its overthrow. Proclamations also were posted setting a stopped at advantageous points, to make fierce denunciatory speeches. All the small boys of the city followed in their wake, acclaiming them, or else hung around waiting to see what was going to happen. All this was repeated on Tuesday, the 27th, and they declared that they were going to keep it up for week, by which time the city would be roused. They were endeavour. {ing to rouse the city against us, oF at least to create a public opinion that would back them up in taking possession of the Mission premi which was their declared purpose.
On Wednesday, December 28, all was quiet, the whole movement suddenly hay collapsed. It transpires that the General in charge of the troops settled in this district, though absent at the fighting front, had heard What Was being done, and had telegraph-peremptory orders for_ the Suppression of the Soviet. Thes orders were carried out with trong hand in Shouchovr, and. the members of the Hsien Tang Pu toon were in fight, or else in se-care hiding. "The Cha Tang Pa col lapsed as a matter of course. This shows that responsible Nationalist officers are anxious to maintain der. The students and others who organize. themselves into Soviets, feom to think that ft i the business fof the military to rake the chest-ruts of place, power, and emolument out of the revolutionary fire, while they stand by ready £0 pick them ap, but they will find those who rake them have' use for all for themselves.
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