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Show STUDENTS OF COMMERCIAL HIGH SCHOOL IN .JAPAN Toklo, May 11. Fifteen hundred students of tho commercial high fchool held the last mass meeting today to-day at which resolutions were pasG-ed pasG-ed declaring that they would no long- er attend the school. After the mass meeting, the tludents formed a line In front of the building, sang the school Bong, bid farewell, removed their school insignia and then dis persed. The trouble in tho commercial high school commenced some time ago, when the students petitioned the government gov-ernment to raise it to the rank of a university. Their request was not I granted, but tho minister of education sought to effect a compromise hy establishing es-tablishing a new commercial course in collcgo of law at the University of Tokio. The trouble culminated last week in a fire which nearly destroyed the building. It was suspected that tho fire was the work of tho enraged students. |