CHINESE STUDENTS DEMAND MORE FOOD AND NO MORE WAR
(Rec. 9.30). SHANGHAI, Moy 20. Fifteen thousand university students at Peiking will hold a city-wide demonstration to-day as a protest against ‘‘the ruination of China through the civil war”, and will demand peace. These students plan to enlist workers in a general strike. Parades 1 by the students, demanding larger living allowances, will continue in other university cities, in defiance of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek’s edict and threats of expulsion from classes of the students who engage in strikes for extra food.
In Shanghai, Tientsin, and Nanking thousands of university students also ignored the edict and staged protest parades for extra living allowances Ten thousand paraded in Tientsin. Six thousand students in Shanghai, beating empty rice-bowls with chopsticks, paraded four miles through the main streets in defiance of the police. The students carried a poster reading, “Guns are fat, the people are thin”.
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Grey River Argus, 21 May 1947, Page 5
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