Chinese Students Suffer Jap Persecution

Reports Have Gradually been reaching the outside world of the persecution of students in the four Japanese controlled provinces of the north-east; 2,700 students were arrested at one time for suspected participation in banned faculty societies. More than 100 students were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from six years to life sentences; 600 were retained without sentence. The food shortage in the north-east is acute, but students are forced to work on the Imperial Army highways, and to march in the triumphal processions staged to celebrate Japanese victories.

In April over 6,000 students and professors of various universities in Pieping and Tientsin were arrested. The fate of many of them is unknown. The whole purpose of the Japanese is to demoralise the guardians of Chinese culture.