of Action 'Threw Chinese policemen of the Bureau of Public Safety received 'Dullot wounds and nineteen students and five professors of the Fuh Tan University were Injured by batons last Wednesday afternoon following two raids-on' the school off Recreation Club Road in Kiangwan by the Chinese Police and members of the Peace Presorvation Corps. Eight students were arrested on charges of Commun~ Imm, One was tater reported to be Following the coburn vf Ger, Wut 'Te-chen, the Moyer, from Nanking, a meeting' of college and middle school presidents was held in the City Government building in the Civic Centre on Saturday, when measures for the suppression of student agitation were discussed, Mr. Pan Kung-chan, Commissioner of Bureau of Education, Conditions at Fuh Tan University had then become normal, classes being resumed, but a comparatively small number of students are attending. It was reported that student' delegates visited several universities for the purpose of asking for assistance for the release of the 22 students arrested by the Chinese police on Wednesday.
The Mayor Explains Interviewed in connection with the] situation, Gen. "Wu Te-chen said:—"Verified reports concerning reac~ Uonary agents secking control of student movements necessitated precautionary measures. It is the duly fof the authorities to protect those titudents who are genuinely patriotic against being victimized by unseru-Dulows clements endeavouring to] xnloit the bona fide students so a5 to. carry out their sinister schemes] under tite cloak of patriotism, "The attack on the police on Wednesday, rix a result of which an officer land two constables were wounded by Bullets, one of whom has since died, was directed with a view to arousing the temper of the police and drawing their fire, so as to create a tragedy. 'This was' fortunately avoided by the great restraint and composure of the police, I note with satisfaction that The majority of the students are not ineympathy with the reactionary in-feignes, and I believe that, once the reactionaries are purged from the Schools, student activities "untinged with unlawful intent will have their proper place.
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