During the past few months in this one province alone there hav? been no less than five serious outbreaks of looting and lawlessness, and with shame it is recorded that in every instance the outbreaks were preceded by student agitation, and it was what the-students said and did" that led the ignorant rabble to loot and riot. While the students may not have done the looting with their own hands, it was {they who stirred up the mobs and encouraged them. They would not have Fesorted to these acts of violence they had not been <ggod on by the student leaders. Many of the: students are mere boys in their teens, or young m: n in their early twenties, Such actions have thus caused many to regard the word "student" as a synonym for agitation and lawlessness.
As to the Chinese officials, there is no doubt that most of those in authority want to maintain Law and order and deeply regret such outbreaks of lawlessness, but they permit the students to carry on a rabid
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