Will Students Return: A Grave Question of Policy Peking, Aug. 7.
Reports from missionary circles indicate that a movement among students to boycott all missionary schools and colleges under British control or with British teachers is making considerable headway. Pro-ably students will not return to Jarge numbers of these. institutions next term.
Aug. 10, Considerable interest and importance attaches to the various missionary conferences to be held in summmar.resdrts, Shanghai and elsewhere this month to discuss the future of mission schools: all over China, in view. of the widespread "movement sionaries are in favour of opening next term in the hope that a good number of students will return. Others, however, feel that those returning will probably be subjected to considerable annoyance and persecution by the study mission colleges, and will possibly' be forced to leave. Many missionary ies, therefore, advocate the closing, of the schools for three months or year, or even more. Others suggest handing over the schools to! the Chinese for a period of from one to three years and give the native Christian teachers the opportunity of conducting them.
The problem is one which not only concerns education, for in numerous} cases Chinese are withdrawing from mission churches and forming independent churches of their own The question, therefore, is also arising as to whether to hand over the churches to the native Christians. }Many tiissionaries are of opinion phidents not to return to such} that in view of the feeling of bitternatioatstic po and "hostility, prevailing,, the eis understood that some mis.
Harbin, Aug. 4.
This part of the country has
during the past two weeks, temper-been indulging in a heat "wave tures of 9 and 06 in the shade being registered in Harbin, an funusvally high mark for this region. 'The nights have also been particularly bad, quite reminiscent of some of the' real sultry sort. provided by Hankow and Shangh: The spell was broken two or three days ago with a little rain and now, while it is still hot, itis a dry and comfortable heat, while the nights have once again returned to. the normal invigorating coolness typical of the hours of darkness in this northern climate. The River Sun-gan has been the Mecca of most of the foreign population during its Teisure hours on these warm day: while the. week-ends have seen the iver' banks crowded with bathers, and every available row-boat and motor-boat has been doing a roaring business. The Russian popul
50,000) practically live on (and in tion of tio own (probably about ithe Sungari on Sundays during the summer and the popular bathing each on the opposite side of the river to Harbin presents quite a Brighton - on - August - Bank-Holiday appearance, with the ex-Jception that the mixed—sometimes very mixed—bathing here might not meet with the approval of the: Brighton Town Councillers, Weather conditions, in relation to the all-important bean crop, this year have been quite fair. Rain Garing June was. insufficient but fortunately fell in ood quantities in early July, thus ensuring the prosperity of North Manchuria for another year. The cultivated area this year is around 20 per cent. in excess of that of 1924 and as reports indicate a harvest almost, if. not quite as good, as last year's the coming autumn and winter should Prove a record period for these provinces.
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