The strike mania is spreading to the school-children. Hundreds of youngsters from the Northampton elementary schools recently went on strike because, to use their own words, "They want to keep us at school until we are 16." The children, both boys and girls, paraded the streets in large numbers, and visited the Education Office, where they stood for some time booing. Then they moved off with the avowed intention of fetching the children out of other schools. In some instances they met with success, and were joined by numbers of other scholars. Eventually, however, the police got on their track and their timely arrival quickly stopped a demonstration which was in progress outside school near the centre of the town, the strikers dispersing as fast as their legs could carry them. strike originated at St. Jame Council School, and spread to a number of other schools, It was caused by the misreading of the regulations for the employment of children, copies of which had been posted on the school notice-boards. The offending paragraph read: "A boy under 16 shall not be employed or engaged in street trading unless furnished with a licence from the local education authirty." The youngsters who originated the strike evidently mistook this to mean that they are to remain at school until they are 16 unless they obtain a licence to the contrary.
Tae Hace, Dec. 17.—It ed in well-informed quarters Mr. Tang Tsai-fu, the Chinese Minister here, will shortly be appointed Chinese Minister to Rome.—Reuter.
Oxford will become the greatest Tniversity in the world for women.
"That is our considered opinion and pre-vision, set down in no spirit or feeling of discourtesy towards those whom Convocation has seen fit to admit to extended academical privilege.
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