PLANT WRECKED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 300, 18 December 1931, Page 1

PLANT WRECKED.

Students on Rampage Raid Newspaper Office. TROOPS FIRE ON RIOTERS. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received December 18, 10.35 a.m.) SHANGHAI, December 17. Students assembled at Nanking went on the rampage and attacked the “ Central Daily News ”, the official leading newspaper of the capital. The staff, anticipating the attack, barricaded the premises with sandbags and armed themselves with bags of lime for the purpose of throwing in the faces of the students. The students, several thousands strong, following a preliminary and uneventful demonstration at the Government headquarters, invaded the newspaper office, overpowered the staff, 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.

but students’ reinforcements arrived, compelling the troops to shoot. Details of the casualties are lacking. The troops, when reinforced, succeeded in dispersing the students, a large percentage of whom w T ere girls. The troops whacked the students severely with bamboo clubs and arrested thirty. Communist outbreaks on a larger scale than any heretofore in Central China have been indicated by the reappearance in Shanghai of several notorious Red agitators. Canton Party leaders, immediately upon their arrival in Nanking, issued a statement declaring that the foreign policy of the new administration was based on the determination that none of China’s rights should be impaired. “ The name of this country shall not be disgraced,” said the statement, and the leaders promised to exert every effort for the early restoration of China’s lost territories and rights, thereby fulfilling the wishes of the nation. This in particular applied to Manchuria. The voluntary resignation of Marshal Chang Ilsueh-liang, the Mukden War Lord, has been accepted. CHIANG LEAVES NANKING, (Received Eiecember 18, 11.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, December 17. Ninety minutes before the southern delegates arrived at Nanking to open a conference for the purpose of estabJudge Beeby’s decision was biased. Chiang Kai-shek made a dramatic departure from the capital in a private aeroplane to Feng-hua. MORE JAPANESE TROOPS. TOKIO, December 17. Asserting that the troops at present in Manchuria are insufficient to maintain order and cope with bandits and military outlaws, who are intolerably infesting the country, the army authorities have decided strongly to reinforce the troops and relieve the soldiers who are fatigued and exhausted by the rigours of the climate.