So it was with many heartaches it the {inal decision was made to the drastic step of closing such well known work even temper arily. To explain the reasons which made such action necessary we must review th various situations they arose within the past four months. The activities of the hospital, which is closely affiliated with "the—Shantung Christian University are intimately connected with the University so that the strike of the Arts and Selence students in the latter part of November reacted upon the hospital, These students, Jed by six or seven agitators who in turn were instigated by the Commissioner of Education for Shan tung Province, rose up demanding the resignation of the newly elected President of the University and the of the University. After days of parades, posters on every available place" denouncing the various administrative bodies of the University and the President in particular, and threatened destruction of property, the President sacrificed his position for the sake of, the University, hoping that altairs would settle dwn.
Instea., the agitators took another tack and demanded registra. tion which was now impossible because of the lack of a Chinese Thereupon, when the adminstratives bodies off the institation threatened to close, the students returned to work without their rear! object being obtained, and their organization split up.
Coincident with the student's strike the nurses in the he: pital became dissatisfied with 19 of the supervising nurses and struck, making impossible demands. After days of conferences at which the role played by the outside forces was shown, 15 nurses were suspended for one month and the remainder of the nurses returned to their duties. But for over a week the patients were nursed by the fow graduate nurses of the hospital who gave unsparingly Of their time to these extra, the hospital has been operating to capacity in @ normal manner.
On-~December 16 a letter was written by the local labour union vacation period two weeks the stk ent agitators have been permanent- reside having the same number of safety of the roads, nor is the coun-
expelled from the University the attacks by robbers on farmsteads Hospital and Out-patint department villages. Can it be that the under the direction of agitators of the provisional union and sent to the Chairman of the Temporary A¢ ministrative Committee of the Ni versity, the body appointed by the Board of Managers to take the place of the President, In this the follow. ing demands were made;— are closed, but the School as "the only functioning School of the University,
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