Peking, Apr. 4.
'Much indignation has been arouse in all circles here by the dismissal of Professor William Price from the Customs College after 15 years' service, on one month's notice, without compensation, other than & complimentary expression of regret. Professor Price for the previous years had been head of the Thomas Hanbury School in Shanghai_and thus has a big following of loyal Chinese pupils, who have passed through his hands in the last 30 years.
'The alleged reason' for his di missal is conformity with Marsh Chang Tso-lin's economy program me. But since the school la maintained by a Customs grant, th. reduction of expenses saves. the Government nothings The real rea-gon is that under the Feng Yuslang regime here the student body and Chinese faculty were saturated with radicalism, with which Professor Price was not sympathetic. The Chinese head of the Collere Inst autumn was dismissed under suspicion of correspondence with Marshal Feng, but has now been reinstated by Liang Shih-yi, because he is related to the Intter by marlage. The return of the old Pres-lent of the College was market by student rejoicings and publitation of a most anti-foreign number of the schoo! journal, after which the dismissal of Professor Price announced, This scandal revives the unforgotten dismissal of Professor Brandt from the Government Russian Languare School after 22 years of service, in November, 1 Dr T. Wang appointed Hau Chien head of the school to. please Karakhan, the Bolshevik Ambassador. The present dismissal of Professor Price is put in the same category by the whole foreign community and by scores of influential Chinese; x0 that Hung Shih-yi is much embarrassed by charges of sup porting Feng Vu-hsiang's agent in what promises to be a cause eélabre.
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