Commissioner's Efforts to Cramp Style of Settlement The attempts on the part of the Great Shanghai Bureau of Education to grab the "educational rights lof the International Settlement] were further manifested in letters led dressed by the Commissioner, Mr. Chen Teh-ching, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the Mayor of Greater Shanghai, Mr. Chen, it may be mentioned, was formerly chairman of the Shanghai District Kuomintang and he is noted for his many anti-foreign outbursts. The Waichiaopu and the Mayor are requested to devise means to regain China's so-called educational rights.
The letters are somewhat similar iyo that addressed to the Chinese Ratepayers Association of the International Settlement, a copy of which has already been published, and they complain of the fact that, because the Chinese authorities do control the educational rights of Settlement, the Chinese people ein uneducated environments. so result of an investigation made recently," the letters say, "it was found that the majority of pri-vote schools in the Settlement are z0t worthy of the name of school and they should be suppressed at once. However, they cannot be suppressed so long as our educa~ tional rights remain in the hands of the foreigner. We must regain our rights in this respect at on: We muse stop foreign culture! invasion if we are to carry on the work of our deceased leader. You are, therefore, requested to take our lost rights." sures to regain
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