Several days ago the Harbin police arrested the manager of the Kaiming bookstore, on the allegation that the store was selling Com. munist literature. The arrest and search of the bookstore telok place on March 29, the bookstore being Tocated in the Harbin Special District. "The raid of the store and arrest of the manager caused a considerable stir in student -circles in Harbin, resulting in a demand for the release of the manager, The bookseller finally was released on bail, but the students continued their agitations and on Tuesday, April 1, the students organized demonstration and distributed pamphlets demanding the removal of "reactionary" teachers, including the chief of the Educational Department and the introduction of the study of social science in' the Harbin schools. They also passed resolutions demanding the liberty Finally a delegation of more radical students. secretly published 'a pamphlet and took copies of it round to the editors of the loca) newspapers and demanded that it inted in the papers. The students said that they represented the so-called "Anti: istic Union or League ened to demolish the offices of the newspapers in case the pamphlet as not printed.
On Wednesday, April 2, a group of 70 students, among them many Communists, approached the office of the "Kuochi Hsieh Pao" published in the Pristan Section of Harbin, Several students entered the build. ing, cut the telephone wires and, overturned the type-cases, as well as the newspaper "forms" which were being made ready for print ing. The police arrived shortly on the scene and stopped the demontrations, but the newspaper was forced to suspend publication for veral days. The police have now taken measures to provide better protection at the various Harlén newspaper offices.—Kuo Min,
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