A clever trick on the local police officials and a "'practical joke" on three parliamentarians, just back from their recent arduous labours in connexion with the election of Tsao Kun, was. played here yesterday by students of government schools. Out on parade with banners and flags indicating their purpose to search out and burn Japanese goods, no one paid any particular attention to them even though a large group assembled in front of the Governor's yamen accusing him of taking $210,000 from the opium tax, which he tacitly acknowledged by not appearing. The accusation was left in large red letters pasted on the wall opposite the Governor's gateway.
But a little atter noon large groups of students by concerted action suddenly appeared at the houses of the parliamentarians, Chang Poyen, Li Ching-kuan, and Hou. Wen. The heavy wooden doors, however, were slammed in their faces, for the guilty consciences of those sought must have warned them of impending danger. Nevertheless, the students of this generation, ever wiser than tha children of flight, were not to be baffled and immediately resorted to house-breaking methods for which evidently they must have come. prepared.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.