Government t University Declares Independence: "Disorderly Chinamen No Longer "Rare Birds'":
Drafting the Labour Law From Ove Own C
Peking, Sept, 4.
Recent events in both the student fand the labour world have caused realization in Government circles that the stone officially thrown into the. pool of agitation is producing' ever-widening circles of trouble for Chins The recent defiance of the Cabinet by a pack of howling schoolgirls was a case in point. Now the Government is faced with a declaration of independence of the Ministry of Education the Peking Government. University, and other manifestations of indiscipline, which ju some cases are 30 highly' ridiculous that responsible officials 449 not care to talk about them.
The University does not wish to ever, connexions with the Ministry of Finance, of course; it wisha imply. to deal directly with that apartment, instead of through the proper intermediary, and then only the recipient of funds, Other: schools are also talking of following this example, but the Ministry of Education is not so much concerned with their clamour, for if it evolves nto action, it may possibly save them much' money and not a little trouble, Schools are springing. up Tike mushrooms at the present tim and "they all appeal for official recognition, apparently in order) Ghat' after' that goal is attained) they can indulge themselves in a) fight for independence.
Still, the authorities cannot disguise "their apprehension at the Febellious. spirit against. prevailing Conditions which these manifestations connote. Such mob Mite have been reached that. the strong man in charge of the portfolio of}! Education, Chang Chih-chao, the formerly the editor of 8 pay called the "Tiger," has had to t his residence at the headquarters of the Provincial Chief Executive f much safer lair than his own Rouse, which, it will be recalled, was wrecked just after "Humilation Day"
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