To the Editor of the "Nonra-Cuixa Day News.
Siz,—In your issue of Ith instant. "In Memoriam" eonclud: s his interesting and suggestive letters on the subject of "The Shanghai War Memorial." In his last. contribution he urges the establishment of a purely British school on public school lines. and refers to suggestions I ventured to make in your columns some month: ago. On that occasion I wrote, "A school for senior boys, run public school lines and British Meals, is urgently needed. Suen a school simply does not exist in the East. It would have to be " boarding-school. obviously: situated in the best climatic and sanitary cond tions obtainable: easy of across b; steam. or rail: yet as far removed as possible from the trading settlements." It will be seen that what I have in mind is not 2 school in Shanghai, but—to quote from your leader—"at some w chosen spot on the China coast. Further, I consider such a school would be more successful if it were the joint property of all British communities in the East. though, naturally, Shanghai. as the largest and most important, should take the initiative and lead in putting forward any such scheme.
It has been my hope that the new Association of British Cham bers of Commerce would not only Tecognizo the urgency of local educational needs. but, as the body niost representative "of British communities, would take definite action in the matter. For it must be obvious that a constant local supply of educated young men, in shoe curriculum special attention has been given to the study of the Chinese language, would not only be a valuable factor in the promotion of British interests, but should prove, in particular, a great aid, a decided commercial asset, to British firms in the extension of their trade and business in China.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.