We do well to bear in mind that) while these delegates at a national! educational conference have no legal! right to say what use France or! England or any other country shall make of the money, unless that right is transferred to China by the country concerned, nevertheless these gentlemen speak the true mind of thinking China. They desire that China shall be the gainer from the funds returned and the others shall really return the moneys in that spirit. They also desire that the gain shall extend fairly all over the land, so that each province shall reap certain benefits, instead of having all the gains come to a limited' number of institutions.—One speaker said openly that he feared indemnity fands~ ware Jike orts eleventh annual meeting of the whose right band dad bald of gov-Federation, is of unusual intersst.jerumont eficials, and whose toft going to profit by an arrangement of that sort.
The Governor's Advocate After the Governor had made Jone of his addresses of welcome, he called upon Mr. Chang Tsi-yen, the classical scholar to whom reference hag been made above, and the report states that Mr. Chang de-lieved himself of a forty-minute address on political forms. A atriking feature of his address, made in Chekiang Mandarin, was that required sto be interpreted for the Deriefit of most of the delegates by! another Chinese educator present, Mr, Chang praised Hunan for its autonomy and hoped that other! Provinces would follow suit. He then followed with " tirade against the foreign domination of China shown particularly in its strangle hold on the Customs service. Til this was removed, he urged, China could scarcely be expected to develop true federal government, something! that required great freedom and autonomy in all matters, It is my belief that while this} conference will probably be less jolent than same that have gone] before, it will be utterly frank in all matters of educational policy, eritiizing home-born citizen and for eigner alike in regard to the ministration of schools.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.