The "September 18th Incident", the fall of Northeast China, aroused public outrage. Gao Lan, who studied in yenching university, took part in the patriotic petition of students in Beiping who were lying on the rails and went south, participated in the anti-Japanese propaganda activities, and published a poem "For the Girls" in Ta Kung Pao, encouraging girls to go out of the boudoir, put down paper and pencil, put on military uniforms and pick up swords and guns! "We can only resist to the death and hope for real national liberation."