The story of these runaway scholars is perhaps worth recording. After their exploits in the school at the close of last term, some 30 of these ringleaders took up their abode in a certain hotel in the city, and formed a "Leave author of "Treaties with and concerning Chin Mr. MacMurray having briefly' expressed his appreciation of the welcome given him and his pleasure at joining this Association of "those in Peking who think in the Englich language," the Chairman called pen Mr. Andrews to tell the the School ' Society" with a ign} gathering something about the bearing this title hung outside on the street, Here they spent the three months of the sum Third Asiatic Expedition's recent experience, not excluding the "47 varieties of snakes." paper, which contained scurrilous anti-foreign articles written mostly by themselves. Relying on promi made to them by the agitators in the government schools, they expected to be admitted as scholars in one of the city schools on the opening of the autumn term. However, the government schools opened, and no invitation came to them to join up. At last, five representatives of the "Leave the School Society" waited upon the Commissioner of Education to ask what was being done for them. Finding that nothing had Deen done, they informed the Commissioner that there more than a thousand of them waiting for ad. mission to the government schools, and that if they were not satis ed they would come in a body to his office, and besiege it night and day until' their demand was granted, Tt may be noted that by thig time number of them are known to have returned to their homes in the country, and there cannot have been more than a score still at their headquarters. Mr. Fan, the Com missioner, promised that their case should be looked into, and there apparently the matter rested, Red Money?
But the interesting point is, that these boys bad undoubtedly recelr-
Mr. Andrews' short address consisted, as usual, of a judicious admixture of information and entertainment. One announcement he was anxious to make on behalf of the members of he Expedition he said, that they were not original discovers of the dinosaur egg after all. On their last trip to Mongolia they discovered that they had been forestalled by the contortable margin of 20,000 years and that so long ago as that the debutantes of the period. were wearing necklaces fashioned of pierced dinosaur egg shell, neatly pierced and strung on fibre, Mr. Andrews went on to refer briefly to the various evidences of migration from Asia into Europe discovered by the Expedition in Mongolia—Reuter's Pacific Service. ed money from some source. Most of them were poor boys, with no resources of their own. Yet they were able to reside for three months in hotel; they were able to publish at their own expense a fairly well got-up newspaper. The source of their supply ig not hard to guess, and it forms one more Tink in the evidence, if more were needed, of the presence of widespread and well-funded Bolshevik Propaganda in China, to watch the Hsin Peking come before the Mid-Autumn festival.
Wuchang has just received a sailing up the river, resuming once This change has no political isit from two Chinese scholars of again her accustomed run between significance, but was simply a the highest repute. One of these Shanghai and Ningpo, after her matter of routine. The new was Mr. Chang Tai-yen and the enforced absence of' over three official is said, to be very other Mr. Hu Shih. The former months for reasons now too familiar progressive and to have been abroad. represents the old Chinese learning, to require stating. When the news He has not always been in politics and the latter the new. Mr, Chang reached here that she might be but in early life was editor of a who is one of the greatest exponents expected, some resentment. newspaper. He made a favourable the old classical lore." atter exhibited by the students. Reports impression upon the officials who giving a few lectures in' Wuchang has it that they even went to the welcomed him into the city, by an-! has passed on to Changsha, Mr. Hut stevedore and endeavoured to get! nouncing that his policy would be is making a longer stay of two oF {three weeks, during which time he him to refuse to supply coolies for regard local affairs as being figurathe cargoes. His reply was:—"T tively divided into ten parts, five of is giving a series of lectures at the Ihave been paying these coolies for which would be governed by the will Normal University. His subject is, doing nothing for all these long of the people, three by his will, and the development of Chinese culture, and mow work is coming! two by Peking. and especially of the spoken Jong: you present such a request. -Reime The recent war rumours have wage, during the "last 2,000 years, Mr. Hu is well known. as iburse me what I am out of pocket quite died down, and no one seems at tone of the leaders "of the New first, after that you come talked." all apprehensive of trouble in the Thought movement in China, and og The students took him away during near future. One evidence of the the morning, but later he was Te-public feeling of security is the the father of Peh Twa' poetry. eased it is said.
He is accompanied by Mr. Chow immense amount of traffic to be ob-'On the steamer's arrival there was served upon the Grand Canal.
Keng-sheng, who is giving lectures ro hostile demonstration. Cargoes Apparently the schools are run-{on political economy' with especial Were handled with the utmost good-reference to the present situation of ning quite smoothly. The govern-China. "He is a strong advocate of by, the coolies, their "Hay ho, ho" as they nipped along the ment Normal School, though sadly internal reform, as a_ preliminary handicapped financially, has" an to procuring the abolition of the plank, with light, quick step went enrollment of 710, St. John's Alumni unequal treaties."
Finging down the bund quite cheer-
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