The Archive · 1937

Police Disperse Crowd

A handful of students of Northeastern University, together with the families of the petitioners of those students now on their way to Nanking, once again marched to the Ehiehanen station this evening. "hey numbered about 100° persons.

This time, however, a strong force of police barred their way and. the ferowd was dispersed a few minutes before the st rival of the special train bearing General "Chiang Tso-pin, Minister of the Interior, who" was reeled by General Chin Teh-chun, Mayor of Peiping, and other Chinese Relatives Demand Trip Peiping, May 21.

Railway trae was again upset here this afternoon when a motley crowd. of about 400 men, women and children, claiming to be relatives of the North-Eastern University students who left for Nanking on Wednesday, invaded the Chienmen station, dom-nding Sree transportation to the south, Waving banners and shouting slogans, the crowd rushed the barriers and attempted unsucesstully, to board a train Just as it was leaving for Tientsin, The demonstrators then encamped on the platforms, waiting to seize the Blue Express, but the railway authorities defeated their purpose by diverting the train to the Yunglingmen station, from where it left 10 minutes late—Reuter,

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