Chinese Children Paid Three Cents to March In Peiping Parade; Enforced "Patriotism"
Frost Our Own Commsronreyy Peiping, May 22.
'The people have duly' celebrated the fall of Fisuchowfu to the Japanese, that is the Chinese have, along.
ith their Japanese conquerors. It fs little use that you are a Chinese and don't wish to celebrate. Hsuchow among the speakers were members of the Provisional Government and the students had to listen to political harangues of which they probably understood nothing. No visitor from other parts of the world would have Jdreamed that these "Chinese were has fallen and must be eclobrated.
Events were started off yesterday when a Japanese paper here hired eleven Chinese brass bands (ong. didn't know there were so many) and sent them out all day long playing, martial airs in that way Chinese brass bands have of making even a waltz sound Ike a funeral march.
Behind the bands marched members, of the newspaper staff distributing Jeaflets of the usual kind, eulogizing the Japanese army, denouncing the Chinese Government and lauding the Hsuchow victory:
Today the students had to take up the banners. They were instructed that they must attend amass meeting and then parade the streets with flags or else their parents would be looked reactionaries, When Nanking fell the same thing took place but then the children wore told that if they didn't fo on parade their parents would be reckoned as Communists,
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