Yunnan, May'12.
'A striking demonstration of enthusiasm towards General and. Madame Chiang Kai-shek was staged here tonight.
It took the form of an inspire 4 intern parade, in which over 7,000 school-children participated.
Boy Scouts and Girl Guides showed considerable ingenuity in devising lantern designs, many of which were strikingly beautiful and all of them Jeffective. The lanterns represented. Jevery known and unknown variety of fora and fauna, Motifs of every description were employed, from [Shantung cabbages to tanks, aeroplanes, and ships.
The gathering paraded through the city to the university where the Generalissimo and his wife are saying at present.
Hundreds of children in the van-nard of the parade packed the wide stairways to the entrance of thd, building and there enthusiastically' sang the Party"Anthem. They then listened attentively while General JChiang delivered a short speech of encouragement.
The march-past occupied over one hour and was accompanied brilliant display of reworks.
General and Mrs. Lung Yung and Jother leading oMicials of Yunnan were on the balcony with General jand Madame Chiang Kai-shek to)
the enthusiastic " throng—
Tsingtao, May 15.
Rioting broke out this morning at the Tzechwan coal mine, half way between here and Tsinan, where nearly 500 Chinese miners were trapped in a flooded shaft on, Monday morning. "About 600 demon-strafers, mostly relatives of the dead men, rushed the administration building,' breaking through doors and windows and wrecking the furniture, Order was restored when private mine police, supported by officers from the Peace Preservation Corps, Jcharged the crowd, using rife-butts Jand batons. Several persons were injured in the melee.
detachment of Chinese troops, 120 strong, arrived during the morn ing from' Paoshan, under orders from Gen. Han Fu-chu, chairman of the provincial government, to aid in [maintaining peace.
Meantime, a thorough check has Jrevealed that 479 men, including one Japanese engineer, were trapped in the shaft and connecting galleries bby the sudden rush of water which flooded the entire underground system in less than 40 minutes, Acting on the belief that about 180 men might have sought refuge in the southern tip of the No. 10 gallery and are still alive, mine cials early this morning ordered that 'a channel be dug in that direction, This end of the gallery, an engineer explained, rises above the highest level so far reached by the water Alling the shaft, The flow of water, which caused the level in the shaft to rise at the Fate of a metre per hour last night, Jat_noon to-day dwindled to 40 cen: timerres in the same period of time, raising the hopes of the would-be rescuers. Unless the flow of water Jceases, however, all attempts recover the bodies of the drowned /men will be futile, a mine. oficial
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