This was the first rea] opposition that the students had met in their campaign. Throughout the demonstrations here, in which shops have been raided again and again and persons have been seized and publicly beaten, no great show of resistance has been offered. Now, however, themselves the victims of the policy of violence, the students made frantic appeals for assistance. Delegations visited the magistrate and the military general, provincial and even national officers, invoking international law, humanitarian justice and the "welfare of China" and asking interference. Assistance was universally refused until the magistrate finally interceded and arranged for an exchange of pri-
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