The Chief Executive has submitted to the Reorganization Conference memorandum from the Ministry of Education, which suggests that educational expenditure should Separated from ordinary admini: ative expenses, that a definite fund should be created with a special commission, virtually independent fof the Government and the Ministry of Education, to have control over the fund.
"The memorandum says that jedueational conferences throughout the country in recent years have invariably referred to the absence of such a fund for education as a matter requiring urgent attention. In the 1919 budget educational expenditure was divided under two heads: ordinary and extraordinary. The total expenditure that year for schools, colleges and universities} tunder the control of the Central! Government was $6,526,850, of which $3,557,010 was for education in the Metroploitan area. By 1922 expenditure in Peking had to. $7,914,239, Educational expenses in the provinces had fereased proportionately and the total national expenditare on eduealast year was nearly $12,000,000.
"At the Washington Conference the Chinese delegates declared that venuer derived from the proposed! Customs increase would he used both for education and industrial development. Now that the Customs duties have been raised to an effective five per cent., while the projected ins Crease to twelve and a half per cent, is drawing near, the Ministry of Education is of opinion that $12, '000,000 a year should be set aside from the Customs revenues be handled by a land wagorts have all been command-cered. A large number of troops entrained this afternoon and are proceeding westward on the' railjway, where a strong movement is expected to begin to-morrow' with Loyang as the objective. A considerable number of General Hu'é troops are also on their way to the south on the Kin-Han Railway, where pressure will be made to th west of Hsuchow.
"The prospects are a short with a decisive vi eral Hu, and thousands Kan's troops returning banditry in hele old haunts General Sun Yueh, who waa Peking in conis. said" that he approves vigorous measures which are being Mar. 2.
Kunghsien is now occupied by' General Hu Ching-yi's troops, who have passed on to Hehsikuan, bout 100 Ti to the east of Loyang, which soon will be reached.
General Hu is at present at the front: General Sun Yueh, with 10,000 troops, is still at Chengchow.—Reuter's Pacific Service, Peking, Mar. 2.
The report of the flight of General Kan Vu-kan and General Liu Chen-hua seems at least to be premature. They now have telegraphed to the Government, saying that General Hu Ching-yi ix indulging in hostile military movements in various parts of Honan without the least cause—Reuter' Pacific Service.
Loyane's Occupation Still Uncertain Kaifeng, Mar. 4.
The report that General Hu Ching-yi's troops under General Yao Weichin have oe-ubied Loyanx by a detour north of the railway bus not yet been confirmed. Communication by mnilway with Loyang ig still obstructed by General Han Vu-kun's troops cast of Loyang.—
Rival Yunnanese General Pitted Against Each Other: Reported Flight of Gen. Chen Canton, Mar. 4 rade Karakhan says that the Chinese protest cannot serve any useful purpose and is unwarranted both formally and in substance. expresses regret at the protest as In the course of an interview|it might ewuse the Chinese people today, Dr. Wu Cha the|to err by suggesting to them that Foreign Secretary, said: ast the U. S. 8. R. can violate the rights River campaign is now more than] of the Chinese.
G0 per cent. over. Our casualties! In conclusion M. Karwkhan a have been light, bat the proportion sures the Foreign Office that neither of our officers killed and wound ed Jin the past referring to the Ports: thas been rather high. mouth 'Treaty nor in any other "A's regards the: reported alliance? pare oF documents connected with of the General, Fan Shek-lis there any stipulation in Sang, with General Lin Fu, former-soviet-Jupanese Treaty'
Chen. Chiang-ming henehma intentions of General ar. We have General Fan to peaceed to fir attack his mortal enemy, Tung Chi-yao, of Yunnan, replacing his Yunnanese zo) Paklo with other troops Edo not know whether it is a net that General Chen Chiung-ming has fled from Swatow ran bout Wing Fung has Chinese rights. question, he declares, daes not even embody any question affecting the rights of interests of the this Ministry on of the Sov'
ide to ion. after being instru- Year Excellency In which it solemn.
the coast in the hy declared that the Govern General} ment in accordance with Article 1V had a small nie was chiefly nye Wireless communication Jhen and {hay of the Sino-Russian Agreement would not recognize any provision in the said Treaty should it affect the territorial sovereignty, rights or wrest of China. It ix now re-
Just returned from a rail trip Pingwu, nea Hongkong, aecompanying some of General Wu's tree ex route to the "—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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