On January 17 seven Chinese bankers were invited by the COUCH to assist the Municipal A very able Educational Con-Pieaticnal Con- Budget Committee in preparing the annual budget: they aecept-May 1d to 28 with delegates ed and useful enlightenment 1s from all provinces. They drew said to have resulted. Th up a_ scheme of continuous paved the way for the election education on national line: Kindergarten to college, and BY ONE 5 from) by the Chinese Ratepayers Kindergarten sociation of three Eh latter reform, immediately car ried out in Canton, which had given birth to it, caused some outery among girls who had now not sufficient schools for themselves. On June 23 the Kiangsu Provincial Government launched fan attack on Judge Loo Hsing-yuan, the able President of the Provisional Court in Shanghai, who, since his appointment in May 1927, had done wonders in making the Court efficient and respectable. They trumped up five or six frivolous charges (some of which had already been brought in the previous October and quashed) invented, to meet their requirements, new ch Loo might Councillors in accordance with the change voted by the ratepayers meeting of 1926. Six other Chinese were appointed to serve on sub-committees. On April 18 the ratepayers meeting, sanctioned the throwing open of parks at a 10-cents entrance fee to Chinese. On October 1 a political strike was engineered in the Chinese post office. but ended on the 5th. On December similar strike broke out in the French Concession's teams, water and electric light services. The men returned to work the 12th, went out again on the 15th and finally came. back work on the 29th apparently sid ofttheir agitators. It may be of the serves tradit Teor ure of efficiency anil who scheme to undercut the system hitherto ruling and get ied a Court [Mentioned that in January the Giving which have characterized the Customs into their own included Munfefpal Council of the In- ne Customs Service during the past hands for ends easily imagined.
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