The Archive · 1907

TEMPLE OR SCHOOLROOM?

In one of the inland towns, there have also been anti-educational riots.

An idol temple had been taken for use usa new school. The priests stirred the people and told them that the wrath of the idols would assuredly fall upon them if these things were allowed go unchecked.—'Therenpon the people gathered, drove out the masters and workers, collected all the furniture of the school, and bent it, The next day they returner and tore off some of the tiling, and attempted to barn the roof of the building.

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

Your account