on Sunday morning, five robbers entered an oil [shop in one of the suburbs of Ningpo and succeeded in escaping with five or six hundred dollars, However tone of the occupants of the house avoided the attention of the robbers and telephoned to the Ningpo Police Headquarters on the Bund. A body of police and detectives was im: mediately dispatched to the village, and anticips wg the road which the robbers would take, Lay in hiding awaiting their arrival. About the robbers walked into the set for them by the police. ition they immediately opened on the police, and a running ensued, Two men were captured, two escaped, whilst the fifth jamped into the river. Later thinking that the coast was clear he crawled out on to the bank. The police spot ted him, whereupon he jumped again ver, and was shot dead the water. The dead man proved to be a police guard on the mall steamer "ying Zing,"
between Ningpo and wen. The latter district is very unsettled, constant rumours of banditry being to hand. the employees have presented a fresh set of demands and these have been referred by the masters to the Bureau of Social Affairs. The Bureau has forbidden the man to strike, but does not seem to be doing much to help the masters to Tesist the new, unreasonable demands, A series of drastic suggestions for the prevention of the penetration of Imperialistic culture into Hupeh has been approved by the Hupeh Bureau of Education. They fare similar to those adopted in other provinces. None other than a Chinese subject can open a primary school or a kindergarten, and noone but a Chinese subject can be a teacher. Religious bodies are not to establish or carry on Normal Schools or Classes for the training of teachers. And schools opened by Chinese religious bodies are to be regularly inspected to see that they are not engaging in religious Propaganda. It is to be hoped that wiser counsels, will yet prevail and the despised religious bodies will bbe allowed to do their bit towards instilling right principles into. the minds of the el pass wa
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