STUDENTS KILLED

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 72, 18 December 1935, Page 11

STUDENTS KILLED

Anti-Japanese Demonstration in Peking POLICE CHARGE 5000 Peking, December 16. Ten were killed and 15 injured when police, using the fiats of their swords, charged 5000 students demonstrating against Japanese aggression in North China. Later the police fired over the heads of the students. Twenty girls in the front rank faced the volley unflinchingly. At Nanking General Chiang Kai-shek, at a meeting of the new Cabinet, said that China would never yield to those who were seeking to destroy her liberty. • A SERIOUS AFFAIR Japanese Reinforcements Expected (Received December 17, 11.15 p.m.) London, December 17. The Peking correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph” says Japanese military reinforcements are expected following the students’ demonstrations, which occurred during the first meeting of the Hopei Cliahar political council. Yelling “Down with the Japanese 1” and carrying banners bearing antiJapanese slogans. the students traversed the city scattering leaflets bearing the words, “Traitors, hold our country I Rise and overthrow ■ the Japanese imperialists!" They stoned the police and firemen who were ordered to disperse them. One girl is reported to have died from a bayonet wound in the neck. They were the biggest anti-Japanese demonstrations by students in the history of Peking The Japanese have warned the Chinese authorities that if they are unable to keep order, the Japanese must do so.