The cadets, however, did not pursue their advantage. After the reply was made to them nothing happened. The explanation seems to be that the decision of the Kuomintang and of the responsible authorities in Canton to abide neutral in the anti-Christian movement was meantime received locally, It arrived actually in Swatow on Christmas Eve, in the form of a telegram, I am told, to the educational authorities issued by the Minister for Education in Canton, Schools were instructed that peaceful propaganda might be indulged but that no interference with Christians or illegal acts of any kind would be tolerated. The comation was in time to be efin Swatow. In other places it took effect on the Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning.
In Chreng-hai, the District City near Swatow, were hostile de-Christmas Day, and, at the Baptist and Roman Catholic Churches hymn books and Bibles were torn up and other damage done. On Boxing Day the government school students went to the leader, a teacher who had been educated at-a Christin school and, Dantized, and asked him to form an anti-Christian Society to facilitate their activity, which included an intention to riot next day at the "Presbyterian church. "Alas," he replied "It cannot be done." He blind just heard of the telegram, and its instructions to the _p to suppress any disorderly actions. Near by a local police magistrate called in a prominent Christian ant asked him what he should do. "Give me two of your underlings, and I can guarantee that nothing happens," he replied, and Sunday asked off quietly,
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