The Archive · 1931

Assault on Kuomintang

To avenge themselves on what] they considered unwarranted interference during their morning meet~ ing on the part of Tao, about 700 Fubtan students went to the Kuomintang Headquarters, in Lingying Road, West Gate, after 5 p.m. They [demanded to see Tao, who is a Kuomintang executive, "Tao, however, slipped out by a back door and made! his "escape.

Angered, the students rushed.the premises and drove out the rem: ing secretaries and clerks, who left without making any stand. The enraged students then pt to wreck the entire building. Not window was left whole, doors were jed|torn from their Eastenings, desks, chairs, stools, ete, were broken and even the portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen was torn from the wall and trampled on and the Chinese! emblem torn down.

The fury of the students was such that police on the roads were afraid to enter the building, though one or two remonstrated with students near the doors, Their Vengeance accomplished at avent 7 pam, the students began their merch to join their assembled comrades at the Municipal offices.

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