Foreign Minister Badly Beaten per by Students Nanking, Sept. 28.
Seething with indignation at the "inaction" of the League of in regard to the Sino-Japanese imfbroglio in Manchuria, a mob of several hundred students made the Foreign Minister, Dr. C. T. Wang, the target of their indignation this morning, when they streamed into his room at the Foreign Office and attacked him with clubs, metal inkpots and other improvised weapons.
As. the mob wended its way through the streets Dr. Wang ws warned to beware of its fury and it was suggested that he should take refuge somewhere. His reply was characteristic. "I shall remain at my post," he declared, and attend to my duty even if T have tov die here, Wang, busily engaged in studying some papers, was suddenly confronted by the infuriated mob fad before he could do anything.
Tnkepots, classes, anything the students could seize were hurled at him, whiten few of the more savage anes "hit the unfortunate Minister with clubs." While some of them 1 were bell uring him, others smash ed every window in the room, knock: fed down the doors, "smastied the ight "and completely wrecked the furniture. it was bedlam let loose.
There is little doubt" that Wang would have been killed there and then had not a fe. loyal members of his staff rushed to the Fescue. Then a. mad fight ensued for the possession of the Foreign Minister, but happily his supporters ron the day, TAR eat danger themselves. they managed to carty Wang to a waiting cary which sped off at full speed, no one Knee Dr. Wang's clothes had been torn Jor? his back and his head and face were covered with blood.
Much anxiety was aroused by the reports of eye-witnesses who stated that the Foreign Minister had re-Jecived injuries of a very grave nature. "Happily, his wounds turned Jout tobe less serious than at first /supposed, though he was very badly injured.
'The doctors who are attending Dr. 'Wang stated this afternoon that he had received three very ugly wounds, evidently inflicted by some heavy, Weapon. There were also bruises Jon other parts of his body, but these were not' so serious.
"The doctors stated that the patient felt dizzy and weak owing to the Jexcessive pain caused by. his injuries, but later in the afternoon he began to rest more casily—Reuter.
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