One is pleased to report that the trike of the teachers recorded in one's last communication very speedily came to an end, very ignominiously, i€ rumours are cor rect, to the teachers. It appears that a representative of the Provineial Educational Bureau, wa: went here to look into the matter, fand he seems to have spoken in no uncertain tones to those who represented the teachers at the interview. Banging his hand on the table he accused the teachers of lack of patriotism, bidding them consider the trying conditions through which the country was vassing. He told them that it was self interest that was tainting them, that their consciences were darken: ed by money. Finally "he told all those unwilling to teach to write names and they would be dismissed and others appointed their places. None, however, came forward—they were cowed fand thus ended the short-lived ike. Once more as one goes along the streets one hears the voices of the scholars in their singing classes or at their recitation. One feels that had similar firmness been manifested in the discipline of the student body throughout the try from the first, much of the snd misery that have come to so many in China would have been mitigated if not quite obviated.
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