Peking, June 12.
During the last few days there! nas been an. epidemic of fracas in the local student world, On Saturday evening an ating house in the neighbourhood of Chao Yang College in the North City we temporarily converted Into a battle! ground when the Honan students of 500,000, The object of the authorities to give a thorough military train ing. 10 1,000,000 men in addition to the standing armies which the province Is maintaining. Every man In Kwangsi is required to undergo at Toast 100° hours of severe. military training. The work is under the personal direction of General Pal Chung-lis!, Deputy Commander of the Kwangsi forces, and has achieved important results, In Canton students in the various middle schools and colleges are receiving a military training. Three thousand "student soldiers" held a the college had a free fight with parade last week and gave evidence their fellow students from Kuang-that much has been accomplished each other. The result. Wi Canton students suffered eight casual ties and the Honanese six. Police: rived on the scene promptly but failed to stop the fight.
Since then the students of the college from other provinces have been trying their best to bring about a reconciliation between the two part es. The Cantonese at first insisted that the Honunese publish an apology in the local press and pay the! medical expenses of the eight injured, This was rejected by the Honaness who said that an apology was out the question since they contended that both were in the wrong, as it always took two to make a fight. AS regards the question of compensation they said that they also had six insured, hence they would have an Jequal claim for compensation against the Cantonese.
On the same evening a party of Shantung students of Chung Kuo College descended on the dormitory of Hunan students and beat up one Hunan student, named Yang Chao-chih, seriously wounding him, Other Hunan students who tried to go to the matter of training students to ght. ets, General [Chen Chi-tang, Commander-in-Chi of the Canton forces, applauded the ie by the students military training the "necessity for military preparedness With permission from military headquarters, the student cadets. of the various government middle schools and colleges are drilling with real rifles and they have been sivan the opportunity of using" real cartridges in target practice.
Students are. given encouragement enroll in the military academy 98 well a8 the aviation school—Reuter.
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