10.
OUR GUARDS.
NOT GOING HOME THIS, AUTUMN.
ILLEGAL SEIZURES. FACTIONS IN CHINA.
UNCHECKED IN HANGCHOW DISTRICT.
Any report that the two Guards
Hangchow, July 27, battalions now in Shanghai and The Commissioner of Educa- Hong Kong will be returning home tion is certainly the busiest man this autumn can be discounted, for if not the most worried men in under their enlistment terma aer-Hangchow these days, for every vice abroad is limited to two years. few days brings up a new case of and, therefore, it is certain these seizure of foreign property, usual- tivo battalions will fill in that time, if not in China, at least elsewherey schools, and the consequent One of the statement and protests to which on a foreign station. most interesting movements of re- he, as a member of the provincial cent years in military garrisons will government commission and head be the use of the Guards Brigade, of the bureau of education, must now at Home, for service in the listen.
PLEA FOR LEAGUE'S
· INTERVENTION.
In a letter to "The Times" on the subject of "Factions in China," Mr. W. E. Leveson says it is becoming increasingly hard to detect any difference of aim, any fundamental subject of dispute, let alone any casus belil, between the dominant faction-chiefs, exercising power to day. All are deeply pledged to a republican form of government. All are resolved upon a new basis for China's foreign relations that is, upon the revision of her treaties with foreign countries. From all come fierce denunciations of Com- muniam and all its works. tionalism" and the doctrines of Dr. Sun Yat-sen are accepted by all. Surely, then, there lies in these basic agreements of principle some platform upon which a Government may be built. Surely, too, if these world duty to offer intermediary service, in order that the prevailing misery and loss of life in China may'cense.
"Na-
Mediterranean. This step had bech On July 6 the Riverside Girlia deelded upon, so that the Regiments School at Ningpo was occupied by of the Line, which would be nor a group of local school teachers mally stationed at Gibraltar, Multa, headed by a teacher recently dis- and Cairo, can be utilised for the missed from the school and call- Far East and China stations, where ing themselves "the Associator a garrison equal to at least pre-war for the immediate taking back of strength is to be maintained for education authority." The teach-premises are admitted, it becomes a
some years,
INDIAN NEWS.
SIR A. MUDDIMAN..
ers and pupils of the summer school living in the building were forced into limited quarters after failure to completely oust them, while repeated attempts have been made to break their morale Simla. July 14.
by night time visits to their dorm Sir Alexander Muddiman, the out-itory and other types of insolence. going Home Member, left this after-Protests to the local officials, some noon for Bombay en route to Eng-of whom have lately been found land. Those present at the station to be involved, having availed no- to wish goodbye to the Governor thing, the case was carried to elect of the United Provinces were Hangchow where the commission- his colleagues of the Executive er admits the illegality of the Council, Captain Herbert, A. D. C.
to the Viceroy, Mr. Gernr, Sir John Shea, Mr. Stow and other high ofcials-Associated Press.
Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs.
Calcutta, July 14.
A press communique states: With the exception of the C. and F. Sec- tion (telegraph complaints), orders regarding which will issue separate- ly, the few branches of the office of the Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs which are still in Cal- cutta will finally close here on the 23rd July and will open at New Delhi on 1st August next. All communications which cannot reach the Director-General's office in Cal cutta before the 23rd instant should be addressed to New Delhi- Associated Press.
Congress Republican Party.
Caleutta, July 14.
The Bengal Congress Republican party have started an office, enlist- ed about hundred members and ap pointed a committee to frame rules and regulations." The party is the outcome of the efforts of a group of Congress politicians who, owing to recent events in Congress politics, decided to start a separate party within the Congress. The
aims and objects of the new party in brief are to secure complete in- dependence for China, to secure adult franchise within the Con- gress, to effect the reorganisation of labour and peasants movement, to fight against rabid communalism and to prepare the country for civil disobedience.
The office-bearers of the party will for the present be Mr. Jitend- ralal Banerjee (President), Mr.j Sual Kumar Banerjee (secretary), Mr. Mohamed Kassim (assistant secretary) and Mr. A. N. Mallik (treasurer). According to the pro-
Mr. Leveson hopea in the name of our common humanity (1) that the League of Nations may set up a board of conciliation; (2) that the representatives of the Powers in Peking might be the means of bringing about a general reconcilia- tion; or (3) that America, whose boast is that she is China's only disinterested friend, might perform the office of "honest broker."
"Snookums," the two-and-a-half-year-old movie star, climbing up the legs of President Coolidge in order that he might have a little personal chat with him. The baby is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. McKeen, of Los Angeles, and was introduced to the President by Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, a personal friend of the family.
vlaional rules of the party anybody action but does nothing on a plea who is a member of the Congress that the school should be register. committee and who has sympathyfed, although the legal limit of re- with the aims and objects of the gistration does not expire until party may become a member. August 31. The local officiala Associated Press.
have themselves now taken over the school and hold it for the people.
Education In Bombay. There is a decided Indication of
education in the Bombay division,
FOR CHINA.
EAGERNESS TO JOIN CRUISERS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Much eagerness is being shown by naval officers and men to join a growing demand. for secondary On July 1 the local "medical the new cruisers of the Kent class says the Educational Inspector in corps" of Kinhwa took possession which are approaching completion. his report for the period from 1st of the woman's hospital there and There are two strong reason for April to 31st December, 1926, the foreign nurse's residence, this, one being that the vessels are Muhammadans of the division have while a telegram of the 23rd tells of a totally new type, the first post- begun to feel the necessity of an of the occupation of another re-war cruisers in the navy, and newer Anglo-Urdu school for their sidence and confiscation of the even than the battleships "Nelson" The other reason children. In Sind secondary furniture. They even went so and "Rodney."
have been allo- schools rose from 12,544 to 13,521. far as to search the neighbour-la that they An Interesting feature connected hood for furniture stored in cated to the China station, in place and "D" with the growth of primary educa-homes of friendly Chinese and are of cruisers of the "C"
classes, and this is the one station tion is the scheme instituted for the taking that away from them. of all others where chances of dia. provision of cheap village school This makes a total of confisca-tinction are most likely to arlee. The scheme has been financed by tions of four residences, one hos- Only two of the five ships have yet Sir Purshottamdas, Thakurdas to pital, two schools and a church had captains appointed to them. the extent of Rs. 15,000 as his first belonging to one mission and The "Berwick," which the Fairfield instalment for the purpose. It alma leaves them only one hospital Company, the builders of the "Re- nown," will complete in July, is to at providing school buildings in the building.
be commanded by Captain R., S. villages which offer suitable build- ing sites and contribute at least The Chekiang government com- Wykes-Sneyd, D.S.0, who was pro- one-third of the total cost of build-mission in deciding the case pre-moted for gallantry in command of ing (exception being made in the sented by the schools decreed that the "Thetis," the first of the black. case of schools intended for girls the two parties should get to ships at Zeebrugge.
buildings in the Surat district.
Urge Compromise.
or backward classes) and handing gether and come to a mutually
district
them over to the
local satisfactory compromise. boards,
On the same day that the Satisfied with the success of the scheme, the donor has promised a Ningpo Girls School was taken Becond instalment of Rs. 60,000 for the Chekiang Kuomintang head-
The "Corn-á
wall," which is to be finished at Devonport Dockyard In October, will pass under the command of Captain the Hon. W. S. Leveson Gower, the brother and heir of Earl Granville, and until recently Chief
the purpose and a programme for quarters organisation applied to of the Staff in the Nore Command, the provision of 26 school buildings the Hangchow Union Girls' School Captains are expected to be appoint- has been drawn up for the current for permission to use the planted to the "Cumberland," "Suffolk,” year. If the scheme works satia- for a three months' propaganda and "Kent very shortly. factorily it is expected that in, five school. They tried in various years time all district local board ways to induce the principal to schools in the Surat district which grant permission without consuit are at present accommodated in ing with the board of managers. hired buildings will be provided The board upon hearing of the re- with suitable buildings.
quest sent a firm polite refusal, consciencious objections to the
As an offshoot of Sir Purshottom-Four days later the propagand terms, insisted upon by the gov das' charities is mentioned the in- ists school moved in and took pos- ernment. The Hangchow verna- stitution of village school circulat- ing libraries at Pardi toluka of the session. The commissioner ad- cular newspapers this morning Surat district. This scheme has mits in this case also that there is state, that the provincial educa- also worked so satisfactorily, that no legal justification for the tional bureau upon application arrangements are being made to ex-action, but leads interviewers to from a local Kashing group here- tend it to seven other tolukas..
POLAR CAKE
ITS QUALITY
THAT COUNTS
think that his hands are tied by by grants them permission to the strength of radical opinion take over the school" and orders which might develop through op the Kashing local magistrates to position to a point where the gov- carry out their orders. It might ernment could be unseated, and appear that the usual admission the communists again placed in by the commissioner of the illegal- power throughout the province, ity of the procedure, with his ples so nothing can be done
for patience will not be entirely convincing in this case where the order comes, if reported true, China
The Kashing High School, one of the largest mission high schools
in the province, has been closed directly from his office.
by the founders because of their Press."
Drastic
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1927.
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