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...factions at Canton. In the same place terrorists frightened the sexton of the foreign cemetery to flight by threatening to dig up the dead. In divers places stories of shots fired at foreign transports were reported and lost nothing in being recounted. Despite many difficulties, indications were that Chinese unrest was slowly ebbing...
...Powers concerned to give effect to their good resolutions concerning China. Unfortunately, the Powers, Britain in particular, have been unable to see the Chinese woods for the trees. British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain in numerous speeches made it evident that the cause of the present Chinese unrest is due to Bolshevik influence, which, of course, Bolshevik Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin indignantly denied. Unbiased reports from China-that is, the average of biased reports, for all communications from that once celestial land are more or less colored-seem unanimous that the root of the disturbances is due to the foreign Powers...
...conference which tried to effect a settlement of the unrest broke down and Chinese delegates returned to Peking. Government subsidies were received by strikers and shipping remained completely tied up. The only ray of light in the black situation was the reopening of the banks...
Events. Riots, strikes, war and general unrest were reported, last week, from Peking in the North to Canton in the South, an approximate distance of 1,650 miles. Chief events...
True, no college paper has yet proposed an adequate solution. But neither have the college authorities, many of whom are frankly seeking a remedy. Student unrest is net her more nor less than a reviving consciousness, rather imperfectly understood, that old educational systems are restrictive, and inadequate to meet the needs of the day. A few student papers and many college faculty are working independently toward a common goal, the former always insisting that since the primary need is to a waken the student, the student must take a leading part in his own education...