Students and teachers have gone itvom this centre of scholarship back to their several homes, where they will have ample chance of thinking in practical and common-sense ways about the problems of China's New Thought Movement. The educational world of Wuhan is, generally Speaking, more stagnant and con servative than most other centres in China. The government schools have recently been very unstable. The appointments of head masters and presidents have been linked with political movements, authority and discipline have grown lack and good masters have been unseated by unruly students.
Amidst this welter of inefficiency there stands out the figure of Mr. Ch'en Shih, of Chunghua College, who is certainly an educational leader of ability and distinction. He has been labouring to organi really first-class series of lectures the outside and those outside were or the Chinese language and fo begin digging towards the in-; Kindred subjects, to be delivered side. The prison wall presented no uring the month of August by very serious difficulty. The mis-China's foremost literary men of the
that the floor of the prison is tuke, however, lay in forgetting! present day, such as Hu Shih, Liang hi-chao and others. This should several fact higher than the level infuse a new stream of life into th2 of the ground outside. Those dig-shallow eddies of academic thought ging on the outside might have! and activity. gone on digging till they reached The recent depreciation in the the Tower of London and found value of 1,000 cash bills and copper themselves in rather an awkward coins and the corresponding rise of position. The King of Chala, the dollar has been affecting every class of people. It has even had its finding no one coming to his res Tefiect on the highly disinterested cue, gave up his boring; his friends on the outside, finding the wall sembly. Apparently the stipend of members of our Provincial As much thicker than they anticipated, gave up in despair. The scheme failed entirely and simply through a miscalculation. It is indeed fortunate for Tachienlu and all in Eastern Tibet that the king did nek scapa.
The following evening, June 1, the king and his servant completed the boring and finally crawled out of prison. Finding no horses and friends ready to hasten -his escape, 'a member of the local Parliament was fixed at $120 a month. In the days when the dollar was worth less than 1,500 cash, the members of Parliament thought it would be ighly desirable to fix their stipends on a cash basis and it was avcordingly determined at 180 strings of cash. Unfortunately, fortune's wheel has treated them unkindly. They would have done well to pin their faith to the dollar. Stimulated by such losses, many of these gentlemen, it appears, are looking for other lucrative posts to recoup themselves, Indeed, the members of. one of the political clubs seem to be working together in quite a systematic canvass for the various vacancies in Chinese likin stations and semi-official benevolent: societies Financiers Pertursep, The copper coinage is causing uneasiness and discussion amongst financiers. Money brokers have imported a host of copper coins of inferior quality and weight from other provinces into Hupeh and these have depressed the currency, Partly owing to the Stagnant state of trade generally, the velocity of the copper circulation is high. Government cash bills are much more portable and convenient for travellers and the circulation of the copper coinage seems altogether too large.
Various measures of relief have been suggested—that all copper coinage from other provinces should be prohibited from entering Hupeh in large quantities: that no more purple copper (tzu t'wng) should be purchased from Japan for the present: that the land taxes in all the country districts should be received 1a copper coins and not in paper n¢tes, in order to decrease. the amount of copper in circulation, Money brokers began to make profits by transporting inferior copper coins, Shanghai until Shanghai determined to resist the invasion, Further financial troubles have been caused by Wu Pei-fu's demand for $200,000 for the withdrawal of the northern troops from Yochow, as well as the ordinary pay of the troops for June. The Financial Commissioner has taken all kinds of steps to raise funds, but it seems as if the hen that lays the silver eggs has either been killed, or else has discreetly withdrawn from public life. There is incessant discussion about the Yochow, question: some of the troops have been moved in half-hearted fashion, but Gen. Wu appears to be reluctant to give up the Yochow garrison' entirely and his critics here, as elsewhere, are asking why he talks of disband-thg troops on one day and training troops on the next, why he does not carry out President Li's instructions regarding Yochow, and so on.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.