Connecticut western news., 1919-10-16
STUDENTS CALL
 NATION STRIKE Form Patriotic Society-CIose Shops and Banks to Gain
 Patriotic Demands.
GOVERNMENT ALLOWS POINTS
Miss Harriet Smith, Y. w. c. A. Student Secretary in China, Relates Amaz- ing Story of How 10000 Stu
 dents Organized Themselves.
By BERNIcE GRIsWOLD.

Miss Harriet Smith, for ten years O student secretary of the Young Wom- ems Christian Association in Shanghai, China, relates the amazing story of how 10000 Chinese students organized themselves to oust the militarists from Government offices in Picking and how they succeeded in becoming the lead CTS of China
 Fearing that China was not to be protected from the aggression of other nations by the Peace Treaty, as she had expected to be, some 10000 stu dents, all of them between the ages of twelve and twenty-one years and in- cluding 5000 girls organized them selves into the Chinese Students Pa triotic Society immediately after the publication of the first draft of the Peace Treaty to fight for Chinese rights.
 Their first move was to strike from school or, rather, from lectures, as they remained in their respective schools and spent so many hours daily in private study. They then organized
 
 literature and for public speaking in the country and small towns and In the tea shops in poorer districts of the cities Tn order that they might reach the vast numbers of people who could not read.
 Immediately upon organizing, the students published their demands, four in number: CD that the militarists, who as party were pro-Japanese and practically controlled the Government at Picking, be put out of office; (2) that Shantung be returned to China; (S that the twenty-one demands made by Japan in 1915 be cancelled; (4) that there be freedom of speech and of the press. They also insisted that the Chinese constitution be finished.
 An immense amount of literature was put out, much of 1t In the new phonetic script which Is being launch ed in China, so that the uneducated classes might learn what was happen ing. Students lectured everywhere on the demands, stirring the people to pa triotism. When many of them were dIlColCu "lliS pui HI lhC SSlS of Picking they formed an Associa ton of Imprisoned Students within the prison and refused to be released, pick eting the stockade themselves when Government guards were taken away, until the Government submitted q proper apology for having imprisoned them In the beginning.
 When 1t became evident that eco homie pressure was all that would he effective both the bankers and mer- chants guilds were called upon to back the students "In less than two hours" Miss Smith said, 'the shutters were up at every shop in thft great city of Shanghai, where telephones arc few and communication difficult. Every shop, whether large or small, was closed. The laboring people, feel ing as patriotic as the bankers, mer- chants and students, also joined the general strike. For a week everything was closed-shops, money exchanges, fish markets, shipping, everything The students struggled to keep public utilities running. The telephone serv' Ice was stopped for short time, but the students soon had it running again l They held meetings day and night, try