Peking, Feb. 27.
'As the government colleges hav' no money for their mainte and have suspended their classes, the Chinese bankers, have been Blonn on the security of the yroached by the students to raise
Russian share of the Boxer indemnity Fund, whicn ie tobe paid from tie customs "rev nes.
he bankers promise to sulseribe $8,000,000, which is" enough to cover their expenses for one year.
Comrade Karakhan, the Russian -Ambassador in Peking, was asked to give the necessary' consent" this, but he refused. He said that although Russia had agreed remit her share of indemnity for educational purposes in China, he would not assist. the Chinese schools ax the majority of the present Chinese students and educational institutions were anti-Russian, Dr. Koo Meng-yn, member of the Sino-Russian Boxer Indemnity Committee, and Mr. Hsu Chien, who are supporting the' Communists, also object to the proposal, Dr. Li Shih-tseng, who is also a member of the above mentioned committee, believes that trouble will arise from the question fand he has threatened to resign and make room for Mr. Hsu's admittaree, The question will not be solved until the arrival of Dr. 'Tsai Yuan-pel, Chanceller of the Government Peking—Univegsity. 'The dispute between the two factions of students, pre-Russian and unti-Bolshevik, is very keen fand the question "of the Boxer Indembity will be one of the main' issues of their struggle.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.