Noble School Wrecked and Pillaged From Our Own Correspondent Teeliutsing, May 15.
Many stories have been told of the vandalism of the troops occupying Szechuan at this time, but few concrete cases have been cited. One such came under the notice of the writer for the first time two months ago, the victim being a school near here. I have been in the school, seen it in operation and examined the contents of its libraries, its museums and laboratories, so know that what is written hereafter is correct.
Tua New Spirit.
The school in question belonged to one of the biggest, richest and most influential families of this district, if not of this part of the province. Its members had travelled far and wide and had taken official positions. Some of their names are remembered, and en-graven on tablets of stone are their deeds. A number of the men had studied in Japan and imbibed that spirit which is to make China 4 country of the first rank some day.
Some of these ex-students returning from Japan determined to set up a school in this district worthy of the name. It embraced all ranches of education from the beginning, to what well might be called an entrance to college education. Languages, English, Japanese and French, were taught in the higher classes, and chemistry, physics, astronomy,—_ electricity were atrong the subjects on the curviculum, Japanese teachers were hired and imported. Shanghai scholars were brought up to manage and teach in the school, There were about 200 scholars in all in attendance in the classes, and all was going splendidly, and to the credit of all concerned, when the revolution came.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.