Foochow, Nov, 21
Great excitement was aroused in Foschow a. week ago by the arrival of two Japanese warships; a cruiser Which "anchored at the "Pa Anchorage, and a small gunboat which came right up the River and Anchored near. the Long. Bridge. There were indignant protests from students and" others, "explanations that. the visit was quite commonplace, suspicions that. it was not altogether unconnected with. the critical meeting of the Council the League of Nations and the risk fof undue excitement being aroused amongst the Chinese thereby; but up to the present there has been nothing to justify either the coming! fof these warships nor the suspicions they have aroused, With a view to' avoiding, the remotest possibility of trouble, mar-Taw has been declared, and. no tone is allowed. in the streets after 10" pam, Proclamations have been pested giving warning that any person guilty of causing a distur-Bance wil be arrested and suma ly shot, and. pol to be seen everywhere about. the streets. "It is not an easy time for the Provincial' Government. They] are being accused openly by a certain group of students of betraying their country, and a, movement. has been started fo overthrow them, and especially to get rid of Ch'eng Shih-Keuei, the Educational Commissioner, These malcontents have presenta several demands, some of which the Government say' are already. being attended to, but some are quite out of the realm of practical: politics, this latter category is the demand that students who are undergoing military training should at once be Supplied with "rifles and. ammuni-ion. The heads of schools in Poochow have a bad enough time as it is, but if their pupils had rifles and! ammunition, discipline would end indeed. "Another request, that there should be freedom holding: meetings, was turned down! 'a3 being impossible under the mar-law "regulations, In protest against the refusal of the Govern-dents threatened a gene school strike, but this did not eventuate, thanks to the vigilance of the police and other authority
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