Now Included in Curricula of Most Local Chinese Schools The compulsory military training programme decided upon by the General Students Union has been generally included in the curricula of most Chinese schools in Shanghai, It is estimated that so far over 20,000 students. have been enrolled. in the student army corps, and, in order to enforce proper} supervision over them, the Union! hae vent out circular invitations to all the important military and political organizations to send delegates to a conference to be held shortly to discuss the problems of direction and supervision.
Merchant guilds and unions have been active in the inspection of stocks of Japanese goods held by local dealers, and special attention has been devoted to candy and sugar stores, Fubtan University students, in groups, have been. act ing in concert with the labour unions the inspection of Japanese goods fon Shanghai and Woosung wharves, The Merchants Federation of Greater Shanghai has sent a telegram to the Bureau of Public Safety at Changchow urging Bureau to take strict measures punishing the local candy dealers who assaulted the students of inspection s lust week, and a letter of consolation and encouragement was also sent to the Students Union in that city, Headquarters of the Kuomintang in Shanghai are in receipt of an order from Nanking to the effect that on Sunday should be observed as a day of remembrance of the Tsinan affair, it being one fall month the occurrence, Flags should Lo half-masted, Tae "North-China Daily Mail" of May 24 mentioned that Tientsin shipping and commercial firms have been turning their attention towards looting, te. for which insurance companies are asking a premium of $7.50 per $1,000 per month, which, understood, being' readily paid, 'THe Chinese press contains the following item:—Employees of the Chinese Post Ofice always have cherished the desire to increase their salaries but it ix.reported that they have received no increase since 1024. notwithstanding repented petitions which have been addressed to the Administration. The result is that they are now suffering from financial difficulties as the cost. of living has seared "to impossible limite, Now that a Postal Departs ment has been established by Nationalist Government, the Union has sent in an appeal' for better treatment, and the Department has replied Ue suggesting that three delegates should he appointed t0 40 1 and present their ease tot Government for cone sideration. Three delegates live been elected and they left for Nanking on Thursday, A reueceant from Tientsin to the "Shunpao" says that Gen. Li Yuan-hung. the ex-President, Is seriously il, Gen, Li tock a leading part in the 1911 Revolution and way ap= pointed first revolutionary com mander-in-chief. He was elected first. Vice-President of China, and after death of President Yuan Shih-kai succeeded to the Presidency. Hix tenure of office was interrupted when Gen. Chang Hsun attempted to restore the Manchus to the throne but. after a few years retirement, he wax drawn again into. polities and invited to yeeume the Presidency. This position he held for nearly' a year when he wax driven out of Peking, after being kept virtually a prisoner by Marshal Ferg Yuchsiang, since which time he has been spending a quiet life in Tientsin. Several years ago, President Li visited Shanghai.
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