Changsha, Oct. 12.
I have lying before me nine printed sheets of rough paper which were prepared by the scholars of the various schools in Changsha and distributed broadcast in the processions which marked the recent holiday commemorating the establishment of the Republic. Happily heavy rain spoiled the plang which had been made to no smal] extent; rain notwithstanding, there were numbers of banners prepared to celebrate the ideas which have been spreading amongst the scholars, largely as far as I can get to know without any consent or even knowledge of the teachers, In some cases, teachers unwisely lent their influence in the initial stages of this movement, quite ignorant >i the way in which it was intended by the prime movers to develop, One only of the sheets is signed with the vame of the school responsible for its production, The school is the leading middle school of the city, the Ming-teh, which numbers amongst its past teachers come of the revolutionary leaders of a decade back. Amongt its scholars have been many of the best eduented young omen now coming into manhood. As this is waceable to one particular—school (though not to one writer or to any particular writers) we—will commence with it,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.