TRAGIC MONTH
CHINA’S TOUCHY ANNIVERSARIES SHANGHAI, May 2. The traditionally “merry month of May” lias a very tragic history in China, resulting in the Chinese keeping nmumrnerable “remembrance days,” thus leading the settlement police and military to take double precautions. The historic days commence with May 1, Labor Day, which the Chinese inevitably use as an excuse for processions and demonstrations against foreigners. Then there is May 4—Students’ Day —the anniversary of the students’ rising in Pekin, and the shooting of Pekin officials for signing the notorious Japanese demands. Next comes May s—the celebration of the establishment of General Chiang Kai-shek’s Government in the ancient capital, Nanking. Hollows May (1, when Japan’s ‘ ‘ twenty-one demands” —requiring, practically, the “ Japanisation” of the extreme north of China —which the world at first refused to believe were true, were presented, then May 0, when the demands were accepted, and last, but by no means least, May JO, the anniversary of the shooting in Nanking road, when 3000 students and other agitators aiid demonstrators tried to storm the Louza police station ami nine of the rioters were killed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16339, 13 May 1927, Page 12
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