The ranks of the" students were swelled by new additions, Including many peasants and workers, until their "total number when they assembled at the Temple of Heaven was conservatively estimated at 10,000. The mass meeting adopted resolutions in which it was declared they would organize the masses and Jarm the people to combat Japanese imperialism. They resolved also to march to the Waichiapou and ask the members of the mew Hopel and Charhar Political Council "why they were selling out the national inter-esta"
In orderly ranks, shouting slogant and flying countless banners, the 10,000 demonstrators marched toward Chienmen Gate. They were preceded. by a corps of 60 scouts on bicycles.
At Chienmen, where they arrived at noon, they were met by police who, in their efforts to disrupt, the parade, used their swords and belts and fired their rifles into the air. A tense moment ensued when the police, with bayonets fixed, pointed their rifles at the surging crowd and held them at bay, However, the students in an orderly manner' reformed their ranks and their delegates held a parley with the police, who appeared sympathetic with the demonstration but had been ordered to prevent the marching students from entering the Tartar City.
Five thousand, in a mass meeting at Chieyen at 1 pin., adopted resolu-Hons declaring:
Establishment of an autonomous! government ig contrary to the will of, tke people:
The government must compensate the students injured by pre-lous demonstrations:
The Nanking Government rust] not yield economic rights to Japan; Civil strife must end:
5. A nation-wide student strike should be called to enforce the above The crowd shouted its contempt of Chinese traitors, ite demand for the abolition of the new Hope! and Char-
At 8 o'clock this morning the North and West Gates of the city were closed, as hundreds of students from Tsing Hua and Yenching Universities marched toward the city to stage a dem-
Peiping Police Open Fire Wildly wom Our OWN Comesroxpent Peiping, Dec. 18, Foreign vitricsses unanimously condemn the methods of the police in breaking up to-day's student demonstrations, Your correspondent was present at the Chienmen affair, and saw police men, apparently in a complete state of panic, firing wildly over the heads of the students and rushing about with their Angers fon their triggers, threatening everybody. Tt was mere good luck that nobody, either students or onlookers, was hit. At the time of the firing not a single superior police. officer wag pres= ent. Your correspondent -actually saw a police station evolve going with the student leeders nally made their appearance, their negotiations with' the students were conducted in the open, and your correspondent overhourd them stating that they would not allow the students to enter Chienmen because they were shouting anti-Japanese and anti-autonomy slogans, The behave jour of the police seemed to be all the more unwarranted in view of the students' most orderly and peaceful procession along. the main street towards the gate, har council, and its opposition puppelism".. There were many erie, of "Down with Japanese imperialism and "Win back Manchuria."
Five thousand in the mass meeting near Chienmen finally secured po mission of the police to enter the Tarlar City "gates, "provided they would divide themselves Into soversl smaller groups and promise to maintain order.
foreign students and faculty members marched with the students {from Yenching University, Forelgnwho have resided og lon as 20 years in Peiping declare to-day's monstrations were the most orderly, patriotic, and significant they had ever seen here, Among the students who were injured, seven boys and four girls were treated late to-day at the P.UM.C.—United Press.
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