Another very successful year's work by the, C.M.S. Anglo-Chinese School; Range Road, was reported on at the annual prize giving held on Monday. Mr. H. P. ilkinson, for many years a trustee of the school, presided, and amongst others present were Mrs, Wilkinson, who gave away the prizes, Mr. Leslie Cubitt (hon. secretary and treasurer), and Mr, J. H. Teesdale, another of the trustees, and the Rev. E. J. Malpas, who made an address in Chinese. Members of various forms contributed to an interesting programme, which included some excellent recitations.
The popular headmaster, Mr. W. A. H. Moule, reporting on the school year, observed that it had gone quietly and steadily forward, quite unaffected by the political restlessness outside. Numbers continued to be excellent, in spite of an increase in fees, the attendance at both terms being 180. Results had been equally satisfactory. There has been no alteration in the curriculum, the subjects stil] being the Bible, history,. geography, composition, translation. mathematics and book-keeping, while classes for the study of Chinese have) proceeded with average attendances, In final examinations the results were very satisfactory, in some cases quite good, many of the students gaining a high percentage of marks. A further encouragement is that good reports are being received of former students now scattered about the country, many of whom kold responsible positions.
Mr. H. P., Wilkinson, in his address, appropriately made Great Britain's remission of the Boxer Indemnity his subject. He said:—
The subject of greatest interest at the moment to everyone in any way connected with, or concerned in, the education of Chinese scholars, is the use to be made of the balance still unpaid of the Boxer Indemnity due by China to Great Britain, which the British Government have decided shall be used for purposes "mutually bene ficial" to China and Great Britain. Since that decision became known many and various have been the suggestions made as to how that balance could best be applied. As none of the scholars in this room were born in 1900, the time of the Boxer disturbances, and as many ple who were then alive have thought the non-remission, hereto fore, of the British share of the Indemnity as lacking in foresight, generosity, and even justice, I briefly state the facts as I know them. The most concise statement of the wrongs done to foreigners in China in 1900 by the Boxers, and their sympathizers, is that in the joint Note of the Diplomatic Body of December 22, 1900.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.