Peiping, May 1 Trouble flared among Peiping's student body to-day as $00 men and women students from the Northeastern University marched into [Chienmen Station to stage a "sit-down" demonstration in five cars the Shanghai-bound "Blue Express."
'The demonstrators, organized in a "petitioning corps," demanded free transportation" to" Nanking where they intended approaching the Central' authorities, Railway authorities refused to dispatch the train, originally scheduled to leave at 8.55 o'clock this afler~ oon, unless the students pald their fares.
The demonstrators retaliated by tying down on the tracks under the Wheels, By 9 o'clock, the train was [SUll in the station siding without Locomotive. Several hundred students were milling about, some _of them giving impromptu addresses, 'Many prospective passengers who bad waited good naturedly for a solution of the contretemps, ears not occupied by the students, Tost their patience as the night wore fon. With little prospect of starting on their Journey' to-night, scores of them began demanding the refund of their fares, The confusion created by the demonstrators threatened to disrupt oilway traMe, The Mukden express due to leave at 9 o'clock was likely to be delayed as were other trains.
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