000,000 Attotted by Nanking Protest Against Suppression of (-+for Imposing Programme Religious Institutions 'A. sum of $2,000,000 has been appropriated by' the Nationalist Government for the carrying out of the "Mass Education programme" in the Kiangsu Province, according to: Mr. James Yen, director of the Chinese National Association of the Mass Education Movement, who has een invited by the Nationalist University of Kiangsu to come from Peking to assist in the formulation and execution of this province-wide educational programme, After remaining in Shanghni for a few days, Mr. Yen will continue his trip to. Nanking.
"That the Nationalist Government] folly realizes the fundamental importance of the education of the masses," Mr. Yen said last Friday to a representative of the "North-China: Daily News," "is evidenced the fact that it'his-inaugurated fan, Extension Education Depart ment in each of its provincial ur versities, such as Kiangsu, Chi Kiang, Kunngtung, ete, The chief aim of this Extension Department to fight illiteracy and diffuse common education among the masses. Under the capable leadership of Mise Vu Ching-tang (Mrs, C, °Y. Tang), a trained specialist in social education, who is now head of the Department of Extensfon Education at Kiangsu University, an education programme, ing planned for this pro
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