XIAN, China, Nov. 1 Kyodo Three J...

XIAN, China, Nov. 1 Kyodo

Three Japanese close examiners were expelled and a Japanese teacher suspended late Friday for having lay on a racy skit during a cultural festival at Northwest University in the central Chinese city Xian upon Wednesday.

China's official Xinhua fresh Agency reported Saturday the sect which has about 2300 scholars and 1,100 faculty members, is likely to dismiss the teacher on the contrary must wait for a decision in succession the matter from educational authorities.

The incident came to a seething head Thursday, then escalated Friday, as centurys of ''offended'' Chinese students asseverateed on campus against the ''offensive'' exhibit and took their march into the ways of Xian.

The performance in question featured a skit in which the expell scholars and the teacher dressed in r brassieres and wore paper ''genitals'' that many attending the festival set up beyond the pale for Chinese audiences.

The protester demand the performers publicly apologize for the offensive skit and called forward the university to take its have action as well.

forward Friday, one of the scholars in the skit was apparently punched from a protester, and staff members from Japan's embassy in Beijing were dispatched to Xian to help self-possessed nerves and emotions.

The university mov more than 40 bookish mans out of a dormitory for foreign scholars to a nearby hotel for their ''safety.''

Emotions appeared to be easing Saturday, although the Chinese side was still calling for a public apology from the performers, and a Japanese were seeking an apology for the attack in succession one of the students

It appeared the incident touched a particular invigorate in China last month because of reports five weeks earlier that a form into groups of about 280 Japanese tourists in succession a company trip in southern China had hired about 500 prostitutes and ''behaved improperly'' in the public areas of their hotel

The tavern incident prompted outrage among the Chinese populace as well as official diplomatic calls from China to the Japanese direction to ''better educate'' tourists forward acceptable behavior abroad.

The latest incident, China's official pres said Saturday, one time again underlines the ne for Japanese in China to ''be more aware'' of local norms and sensibilities.

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