RIOTS IN NANKING

Southland Times, Issue 21581, 19 December 1931, Page 5

RIOTS IN NANKING

STUDENTS RUN WILD.

NEWSPAPER OFFICES WRECKED.

(United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.)

Shanghai, December 17.

Students who are assembled at Nanking went on the rampage and attacked the Central Daily News, the leading official newspaper of the capital. The staff, anticipating an attack, barricaded the premises with sandbags and armed themselves with bags of lime for the purpose of throwing it in the faces of the students. The students, who were several thousands strong, following a preliminary uneventful demonstration at Government headquarters, invaded the newspaper .offices, overpow'ered the staffs, completely wrecked the modern plant and destroyed the editorial, circulation and advertising departments. Police and soldiers were rushed to the scene and a free fight followed. Student reinforcements arrived, compelling the troops to shoot. Details of the casualties are lacking. The troops on being reinforced succeeded in dispersing the students, a large percentage of whom were girls. The troops whacked the students severely with bamboo clubs and arrested 30. Communist outbreaks on a larger scale than any hitherto in Central China are indicated by the reappearance in Shanghai of several notorious Red agitators. NEW GOVERNMENT FOREIGN POLICY ENUNCIATED. CHIANG DEPARTS FROM CAPITAL. Shanghai, December 17. Ninety minutes before the Southern delegates arrived in Nanking to open a conference for the purpose of establishing a new Government, Chiang Kai-shek made a dramatic departure from the capital in a private aeroplane to Fenghua. The party leaders immediately upon their arrival in Nanking issued a statement declaring that the foreign policy of the new administration was based on a determination that none of China’s rights should be impaired and that the name of the country shall not be disgraced. They promised to exert every effort towards ensuring the early restoration of China’s lost territories and rights, thereby fulfilling the wishes of the nation. This particularly applies to Manchuria. The voluntary resignation of Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, the Mukden war lord, has been accepted.