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CHINA PREPARES FOUR NEW
FOR
AFTERWARDS
FRENCH STAMPS
Four new. French stamps have
Universities Appeal been pas on sale two designed as
tourist propaganda; the other two bearing a surtax, the proceeds of which will be devoted to tha erec-i tion of a monument to the Frenght infantry in the Great War.
While China remains devastated by war and Boods, the visit to Britain of Mr. Francis Wel. Prest- dent of the Central China Uni- versity, shows something China's far-sightedness-of plans for reconstruction when the The first represents. In violet and havoc is done.
"
of
The two propaganda stamps are
ber large and engraved un copper plate dark brown on a lavender ground, Mr. Wel has come to Britain the keep the chateau of Vin- and the United States to raise an £80.000 post war fun" for the Christian universities of China, of which his university is one.
When he spoke recently at a small luncheon attended by Sir Denison Ross. Lord
from military service.
cennes.
It is of 10 francs value. The second, costing 20 francs, and coloured green, shows a charac- teristic view of Saint Malo.
These two new issues are being'
OYSTERS HAVE
FOUR-YEAR PLAN
Half a million oysters have Just been planted on. the Oyster Bank near Oland, on the west coast of Schleswig Holstein. They were imported from Holland,
Germany, is, fostering the breeding of oysters under the
four-year plan.
FEWER STUDENTS GOING ABROAD
TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1938-PAGE 3
A New Home For War
Refugee Children
It is not a boarding school, but it has all the facilities of one; not an orphanage Eut most of the youthful occupants had lost '!' their parents. The building is the new home of three hundred boys and girls who recently arrived in Hankow from Hsachong, now a devastated city on the Plaghan Railway, after a severe Japanese aerial hombardment late in May.
Sponsored by the Committee on Child Welfare and Education, whose hosts include such celebrated women as Madame Chiang Kai- shek, and Madame Feng Yu-hsiang, this new addition to the Com- mittee's war refugee children's home" is not unlike many others
Already in existence in the Wuhan area.
away as
With their dust hardly washed Plans are, aiready under way
the Chinese saying evacuate the children to Hunan goes). all of the three hundred in accordance with Government children were crowded into, the orders.
Difficulties Caused small buildias
By Present War was, every room appeared clean to indiscriminate bombing by
Congested though the place we don't want to expose them
"The fact is the director said."-
and neat. Among the first things Japanese planes as was done in Students going to America and taught the children, the director Canton. We want these children, newcomers rescued, to grow up as upright
Addington į substitated for the present tourist Europe to study will greatly dimin-sald, was a lesson on cleanliness whom in our mengre way we have most signiacant observation, per-/values which represent respectiva. to a high authority in Chinese spend part of their first two days citizens and we shall help them and others who know China, his propaganda stamps of the same ish in number this year, secording The older of the haps, was that the Chinese Gov-ly the port of La Rochelle and the jeducational circles. The most im scrubbing, mopping and dusting to become strong hnd healthy.". ernment was exempting students Pont du Gard.
portant reason is the war, which the whole house with members The two surtaxed stamps for the adversely affects the pocket-bees of the staff assisting, and supervis- In the next room adjoining the benefit of the Infantry memorial of many a family intending to sending.
director's amice, a singing class. children abroad for higher educa-i centimes, with a surtax of 70 cen-
Many members of the staff are was in session. one franc 10 centimes, and 55
The pupils were foreign currency will also dis-
no pay but are given free board! "Rise,..you who are unwilling to courage a number of prospective and lodging. The teachers. how- become slaves...!" candidates for foreign universities. ever, are allowed a salary of $15 restrict the number of students go-
The Government also intends to a month.
nese will be too important after cost.65 centimes, with a surtax oftion. Then the difileulty of buying¦ refugees themselves." They receive singing:-
It realises that educated Chi- the war for them to be wasted
Low in slaughter.
times.
teי
Also of large size, these stamps
The Japanese appear to realise this too for, by all accounts, the lives of the educated are the least are coloured respectively blue and safe in the territory under Jap-Breen, and violet and brown. anese control.
GREAT DIFFICULTIES
The five Christian universities Cold Wave
are an instance of what is hap pening. Two, of them, in Japanese, territory, operate under enormous difficulties. Mr. Wef's own univer- sity. staf and students. have planned to retreat to the South- west. bag and baggage, if Hankow fall the fate of Wuchang de- pends on Hankew,
Destroys
Summer Fruit
Ап
These children will remain in
"Strike down the Japanese... the traitors... :
let's all mobilize...to save China!"
ing abroad. It is understood that Hankow only for a short while.--(CIC).
the Ministry of Educalon and the
Ministry of Finance are formulat.
ing a set of regulations towards this
end. While the contents of the re- KWEICHOW DISTRICTS LABORATORIES
gulations have not been made pub
Hic, it is learned on good authority
that they will raise the standard.
FLOODED
Kwelyang, July 4 Owing to the onrush of mountain
of requirement for prospective stu dents and also discourage pur-treshets, five districts in Kweichow, suance of any subject not related namely Yungkiang,
to national defense.
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SPECIALISED TRAINING
Chingping, Tankiang. Hsiakiang and Patsui, have been flooded, causing tre-
ERECTED ON POLAR SHORE
A biological station of the So-
erected on the Muhman coast of the Northern Polar Sex.
unusually late cold Wave sweeping over Yugoslavia has severely nipped the plum and Altogether there is likely to be cherry trees, whose fruit is one of time to allow only college graduates (Central News),
It has been the practice for some mendous damage to property.viet Academy of Sciences is being a concentration of the educated the country's chief exports Not to go abroad to study. Now this Chinese, in the South-west if the for 40 years has such weather been will not be enough. A student will flocked to "foreign countries by Japanese advance continues. and known as this season... these might ultimately prove a
have to work one or two years be-hundreds. Snow lies several feet deep in the fore he is allowed to go abroad for
The Warm" Atlantic current vanguard of Chinese reconstruc-mountains, and elsewhere the specialised training.
Aside from restriction, the Gov-there creates "a rich and varied tion.
country-side is covered by a mantle
Jernment has specially appropriated fauns," it is stated, and this opens For these various Mr. Wel, for one, does not be- of white frost. In some places number going abroad will greatly tance to students who have been research work."
reasons the $180,000 to render financial ass-up broad prospects for scientific lieve that Japan can obliterate transport, has been interrupted. diminish in number as compared stranded abroad because even If she beats China-hence) Tourists who attempted to reach with the need to be prepared for after-Durmitor, a Montenegrin beauty one to two thousand studenta went the junior year and who are in room, and a large library, besides,
of: the previous years. Previously, war. Students who have finished
The station will have ten rp- wards.
From the United States spot, which is normally bathed in abroad every year to pursue high-financial difficulties will be turn the most up-to-date equipment.
search laboratories, a lecture- Mr. We has already collected | sunshine at this time of the year, er studies in foreign. universities. ished a return passage by the Gov- £84.000 of the £30,000 he asks have been forced to turn back be-During the Great War, when the ernment, so that their service may (Manchester Guardian)..
cause of snowdrifts
exchange was favourble, students be available to the country.
Construction work should be completed by 1939.
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