The "Japan Chronicle" reports that the Rev. E. M. Mowry has been deprived of the Directorship of two mission schools, one of which is a girls' school, at Pyongyang, Korea.
The official reason, it says, given out by the Japanese authorities for the step taken is that he failed to take proper steps for the control of the Korean students at his schools, who acted improperly on March 1 and on other days.
According to the official statement published, the students at the Sutoku School, under the Directorship of Mr. Mowry, have long been notorious for their improper behaviour. In 1917, they acted improperly, and this cai the Governor of the province to draw the attention of Mr. Mowry to the fact- In connexion with the Independence disturbances March, 1919, many students of the school were found guilty, and Mr. Mowry himself was fined on, the charge of harbouring criminals. For these offences, it was but proper in the light of the regulations that the school should have been ordered to be closed, but special clemency was shown by the authorities, and no such rigorous step was against the school. In spite of this considerate treatment, by the authorities, the school failed to behave itself properly. In. defiance of a warning given by the school on February 25 the whole of the students in the Higher Course of the school absented themselves from school on March 1 and 2, At p.m. on the Ist instant, they shouted "Mansel," but the Director and other authorities of the institution failed to take appropriate steps on the occasion. On the 3rd instant, 43 students of the Comnion Course shouted "Mansel for Independence and on the following day the whole of the students of §.|the Higher 0 Course did the same thing in the school grounds, a fact which has had a very unfavourable effect upon other institutions. The authorities thought it advisable to close altogether a school which 4 showed such a lack of sincerity, but for the sake of the future of the teaching staff and students, they confined themselves to cancelling the official sanction for Mr. Mowry's Directorship of the school. His Directorship of the Suken Girls School was also cancelled. because he could not. prevent the students at that, school from absenting themselves from school in a body.
The above is, apparently, all official statement. No account appears of what Mr. Mowry may have to say in his own defence.
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