As everyone remembers, student patriotism" ran absolutely amok in Peking during Feng Vu-hsiang's rénime here when the Soviet agents had a free hand and had planted a "cell" in every class of every school in Peking. The Fenstien victory, in the spring of 1926, followed by a prorrai some repression in all the Gi ment schools; but in the det Customs College, supposally under semi-foreiga control, but actually run by a Chiness appointee of the upon a time a Cabinet Minister, had
and prepink tendent cies of the students.
Te was only after the documents seized in the Bolshevik Embassy in the spring of 1927 began available in translation to. offcialdom that educationalists who were Known to have enjoyed friendly relations with Feng Yuchsiang and to have forwarded his demoralizing student programme began systematically combed out. The enthusiasm of the valuable Dr. Chen Chun-hsien for Feng Yuhisiang's methods and the semi-Bolshie attitude of a number of the students were too well known for him to escape, so just ax the autumn term opened last year, Dr. Chien was removed and a certain Mr. Chang, of the International Famine Relief Commission, was apred to succeed him, Mr. Chang knew what Fengtien wanted done with Dolshevized students and discipline was suddenly evolved from what the students call "self-direction", to the great relief of a number of Chinese and foreign teachers who had been heckled into a state of nervous jumpiness under: the Dr. Ch'en administration. Things went more and more smoothd the college until, in Mare mediately after Mr. Liang Shih-yi's sumption of control of the Shui Wa Chu (the Revenue Board that nominally controls the Customs and actually "controls. the College), it was suddenly announced. that the former Dr. Ch'en was a relative of ug Shih-yi's by marriage and a and connections with Feng and his Red
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