Smyrna times., 1919-12-10
STUDENTS CALL
NATION STRIKE
Form Patriotic so9iaty--clos.
Shops and Banks TO Gain
Patriotic Demands.
GOVERNMENT ALLOWS POINTS
Miss Harriet Smith, Y. w. c. A. stuser,
Secretary in China, Relates Amaz.
ing Story Of How 10000 Stu.
Gents Organized Themselves
By eERNIcE cRls,Mo1n

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MISS Harriet Smith, for ten vaoc,
student secretary of the Young WON
ems christian Association in Sbanrhai
CLlna' relates the amazing story NJ
now 10000 Chinese students orponizo+
themselves to Oust the milifarists frorr
GoYernineht offices in Peking and how
uley succeeded in becoming the lead
ers of China. ''u
Fearlng that China was nor to he
projected from the aggression o4 otbo,
natiohs Dy the Peace Treaty. as she
Hau expected to be, some % 0o0 s+,,
uehts, all Of them between the ogoe ~
we've ana tWenty-one years and in
oiuuins S'OOO girls organized them.
serves into the Chinese Students Do.
trlotlc Society immediately after tho
publication of the first draft oq Tho
Peace Treaty to fight for C,biroso o.,o
rights. 04iilieSe
Their first move was to strike from
school or, rather, from lectures nc
uley remained in their resnactiyo
schools and spent so many bours do;lv
III private study They then organizad
INTO bands for getting out pronagondo
literature and for public spealxing in
the country and small towns and in +bo
Tea shops in poorer districts Of tbo
clties in order that they might roach
the vast numbers Of people who conId
not read. 0 0Ouiu
Immediately upon organizing. the
Students published their demands. four
IN number: % that the militarists
VINO as a party were prO-Japanese and
practically controlled the Government
at Feklng, be put out Of Office; (2) that
Shantung be returned to China roy
Lhat the twenty-One demands made bv
Japan in 1915 be cancelled; "a that
there be freedom Of speech and of tho
press. They also insisted that tho :
Chinese constitution be finished
An immense amount of literature
was put out, much Of it in the new :
phonetic script which is being Iauncb- I
ca IN China, so that the uneducatod :
classes might learn what was h9nnen. :,
ing. Students lectured everywhere ON
-he demands, stirring the people TO no. &.
Hotism. When many Of them were -
arrested while parading in the streets -
u Feking they formed an Association =,
u imprisoned Students within tbe -
'rison and refused to be released. pick =,
ting the stOckade themselves when -
government guards were taken awav. e.
ntii the Government submitted n 81
roper apology for having imprisoned ~
hem in the beginning. ~
When it became evident that eco. -
omic pressure was all that would be 90
Iective both the bankers and mer- oe
lants' guilds were called upon to back 20
le students. SIN less than two ~,
ours," Miss Smith said, "the shutters
ere up at every shop in that great vii
ty OF Shanghai, where telephones are oct
w and communication difficult. vo
very shop, whether large or small. ars
rs closed. The laboring people, feel tba
g as patriotic as the bankers, mer- daa
ants and students, also joined the aoa
neral strike. For a week everything I'm,
Is closed-shops, money exchanges, old
b markets, shipping, everything chi
e students struggled to keep public nuh
lihes running. The. telephone serv- M
was stopped for a short time, but and
students soon had it running again. exn
ey held meetings day and night, try spri