'As will have been seen in the arti-Ae published in another column, the school for Russian children' in Avenue Foch has been reopened and has enough money promised to Keep it going for another three or, four months at least. Considering. that it only costs $10.0 head per month to keep the child in this school, we cannot for a moment doubt that more money will ba forthcoming when needed. At the same time, as was pointed out in Saturday's' article, some of the money was promised on the clear understanding that all Russian children, who have been selling odds and ends of sweets, ete, in the street, should be rescued and put into the school. Actually there are about 30 boys and givls in the school, but, as anybody who Tikes to stroll along Nanking Road any day from the Bund to the Szechuen Road can see, there are other Ru sian children still on their old beats outside the principal star Their parents, when remonstrated with, have replied that until they themselves can get work, the children must go on selling in the streets. "An answer of this kind 19, not calculated to elicit much sympathy. It is, to say the lensty most unpalatable that children of such tender age should be standing about in the street for hours together and in all weathers, when us of North and South looking back on the history of go to war and their right to settle other republics, we find abundant the dispute in their own way examples to prove that the will no micro questioned than that of of the people has only prevailed'
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