Orderly Columns of Undergraduates Fired on by Police: No Casualties: Movement Spreads Front Our Own The student demonstrations last deny gaizing, Des. 1 Monday" were extremely badly. handled by the authorities. "There appears to have been no plan as to the method of coping with them. The measures that were actually" tien were half-hearted and chaotic, The closing of the city gates, for instance, which was intended to' prevent the students from the colleges outside from entering the elly, was not only provocative step, but, worse still, quite Ineffective. The railway gates were not properly guarded, and some of the gates on the south' and west aide were lett open, Through these the students managed to enter. It is said that the new Government was afraid {o forbid the dem-monstrations altogether, or to close all the gates and transform the city into a complete state of siege, as this would Ihave been taken as a sign of weakness and also of a guilty conscience, Yet, hho attempt was made to lay' down definite route along certain main thoroughfares, thereby allowing the students to. wall off their" surplus energy. Almost from the very start the police attempted to break up by force entirely peaceable processions, fand In every case It was' the pelled who started the attack, Fire hoses, volleys with live rounds, and charges with broad swords and' belt buckles were the order of the day, as if the police were faced with raging mobs of armed rioters, instead of lines of remarkably well-diseiptined and, if anything, rather nervous, " school-children who were completely unarmed, Tt was a perfectly ridiculous per~ formance, and. the chief impression that one gained from it was that the police were a good deal more afraid of what their Japanese masters might fay, than of the opinion of their Mow-citizens. The chief anxiety of the police seems to have been, lest the parades should come anywhere near into experiences with stucen 1919 may have given a hint to his ing their broad executioners' swords and their Mauser pistols and chasing back the bolder spirits among the students who ventured forward to argue with them. Above our heads, on the raised platform of the police-station, stood the half-dressed policemen in violent argument. with some of the students below who were imploring them to let them pass with out firing.
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