Peking, July 19.
The young men of Chufu, the town in Shantung province wh Confucius was born, are up in arms against the "reactionary attempt at domination" by the "Kung clan, meal descendants of Confuctus.
'The dispute, which is of long-standing, has' reached a dims through' the production of amateur play by students of the Shantung Normal School at Chufu.
One of the characters in this play was Confucius and another was one of his disciples. The students who played the parts aroused the wrath of the Kung clan because they are alleged to have presented Confucius as a simple villager, and his disciple was pro-sented as an ex-bandit, Declaring that the play was an insult to the memory of China's great sage, the Kung clan demand-fed that the principal of the school be dismissed, 'But the students rallied unanimously to the principal's support. 'They issued a statement, which do-clared in part: "The Kung clan has attempted to rule Chufu for centuries, merely because they claim Confucius as an ancestor. 'They fare' bigoted reactionaries, and no credit to the memory of their illus trious ancestor.
"We have endured their domina-
Jong enough. Now we intend to throw off their reactionary influence, and keep in step with progress in Chufu, putting the city in the fore-front of the modern movement in China
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