Peiping, Feb, 25.
In an effort to end the agitation against the semi-annual examinations, Dr. Mol Yi-chi, Chancellor of Teinghua University, who has just returned from Nanking, has decided to deal firmly with the refractory students. To-day, he gave two grand demerits to each of the eleven ringleaders in the trouble which led to the resignation of 68 members of the faculty, and ordered the examinations to begin on February 27.
The Chinese papers to-day have 2 report saying that, upon receipt of 3 telegram from the Kwantung Army, Mr, Takaura; head of the Japanese consular police in Peiping, visited Gen. Chin Teh-chun, Mayor of Pel-ping, and Gen, Chen Chi-yen, Dicector of Public Safety, inquiring about the Student situation in Peiping, and offering to ce-operate with them in the suppression of Communists in Peiping. Mr. Takaura was told that the' local Chinese authorities had ample forces at their disposal to deal with any Communist outbreak or dis~ turbance and therefore needed no assistance from the Japanese.
Tt s said the telegram of the Kwantung Army instructed Mr. Takaura to Investigate the recent troubles in the various universities and also the activities of Communist agitators— swamp.
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