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in enemy territory and so was illegal unless licensed. The policy above outlined received the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies and was given legal sanction in the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance.
Towards the end of October, 1914, it was decided with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that all enemy subjects in Hongkong should be either expelled or interned. Although this policy was not directed against trading by enemy subjects but was based on other grounds, it necessarily involved the stoppage of the trade of enemy subjects in the Colony and gave rise to the measures taken to wind up their local affairs. These measures and their objects appear from the two winding up Ordinances.
IV.-EDUCATION.
The registration of the private schools under the Education Ordinance proceeded satisfactorily. The Ordinance has not been applied in the New Territories, where instead small subsidies were granted to 50 of the most promising schools.
A new edition of the Grant Code was published in 1914. This was necessary in order to bring it into line with the Education Ordinance.
The Code now recognises the principle that all teachers in schools must be either Certificated Teachers or Students (Passed or present) from the Normal Classes of the Technical Institute. The Upper Classes of English Schools are encouraged by Grants to take the Matriculation and Junior Local Examinations of the Hongkong University.
The total number of pupils at schools in the Colony excluding the Police School and the uncontrolled schools in the New Territories are:-
Number of Pupils in English Schools. Vernacular Schools, Total. Government Schools, - 2,076 2,161 85 Military Schools, - 116 116 Excluded Private Schools, 580 - 580 Grant Schools, 2,137 2,192 4,329 Controlled Private Schools, 2,075 8,790 10,865 Controlled Private Schools, New Territories, - 852 852 Technical Institute, 478 - 478 Total, 7,462 11,919 19,381