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Show CM ANGERED BY JiPffS ACTS Land Seizure Plot Under Guise ol Bandit Attack Is Resented 1 I'KKING. Jan. 1. Chinese students have become active In an effort to arouso the populace to realisation of the alleged seriousness, of Japanese sc-gresnloa sc-gresnloa In ths Uunjgchun and Chlen-tao Chlen-tao districts, by means of street demonstrations. dem-onstrations. SOveHll thousand men and women students representing 29 schools and colleges congregated recently in the plane beforo Central park here and marched to the gate leading to the presidential palace, thence the foreign office and several of the ministries, carrying flags and banners with patriotic patri-otic Inscriptions. At I he foreign office. Dr. W. W. Ven spoke to the students from a balcony. bal-cony. Me is said to have assured thenil Lhat thn military governor of Manchuria. Man-churia. Chang Tso-lln, had cntored Into no agreement with the Jape - as reported, for military co-opcrntlon in policing Manchuria, nor had the foreign qffice recognized any right on , tho part of Japan to send troopa into Chinese territory. The students were orderly and there was no work for the extra police who: wero rushed to the various localities! visited. For several daa street ora-' tors have been 'busy haranguing' rOWda hi the streets. Tho Japanese sent troops to the I frontier town of Bahgchun In Chinese territory in October for" the announced purpose of protecting Japanese subjects sub-jects nfter the town luicl been raided by bandits. This Involved the foreign ministry of China and Japan in a c'Ort-trovsrs c'Ort-trovsrs Gommentlng on the affair.' E. Lenox Simpson (Putnam Weale, statistician to lh president of China)) said that Hungchun was the nearest ' Important point on Chines,- terrltoi to the Sea of Japan, to which Japan J held ull the keys. Mr. Simpson point i ed out that such bandit attacks as those at Hungchun "were always at-' tempted where Japan seems anxious to Install garrisons" Hungchun Is, about CO miles south of Vladivostok where the borders of Clitna. Korea and Siberia meet, and is close to Posotel bay. oa the Sea of Japan. |