The Archive · 1905

The Chinese Students

The Chinese students in Tokio, numbering about eight thousand, continue to be excited. They complain that di mination is exer they are thus placed on a footing different from that occupied by the students-of any other nationality. The immeiliate cause of umbrage is the recent issue of regulations by the Edugation Department. If I mistake not, the case is one of misunderstanding. The recent regulations were not issued against the Celestial students, but were to control those schools admitting them. Some sensational papers helped also to fan the flame, In muy esso, such affairs as the University farce referred to above ars not to the credit of the educat anal authorities, who seem to have otod rather tactlessly.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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