The Archive · 1936

$200,000 FOR MONGOL RELIEF FUND

Peiping, Apr. 20.

Gen. Sung Cheh-yuan, chairman of the Hopei and Charhar' Council, has agreed to appropriate the sum of '$200,000 for the relief of Mongols who ost their herds during the recent [severe weather In Inner Mongol Reuter. to be constructed through the subuy of Chinhe, which will run down Student Strike Move the river' bank, where in time how carriage and pedestrian bridge Spreads is to be erected, connecting the fun ther side of the Sungari with the Tientsin, Apr. 25. town and thus giving the population The student strike and pro-the chance of Having easy access paganda movement here has the summer resorts which can only developed momentum with the reached by boats or motor cut. participation of additional schools, tors. These often are stopped by of which 17 have so far suspend-the police owing to the danger fron ed classes. The majority are squalls, The whole scheme of tom resuming after the week-end, but lanning will cost several million, four are continuing "the strike part of which is to. be defrayed for another week. the Government and part by the Ten groups of students belong-Municipality, and when trey ing to. Nankai University are finished in about five years, Harti conducting a mission of pro-will present a very different appear paganda in the surrounding vill-nce, Large buildings also have ben ages. They are advocating naferecied during the past three yeas tonal efforts at "salvation" and comparing the present situation New Local Industry North China with former Lately a certain foreign gentleman conditions in Manchuria. Slogans has been experimenting in the smok-used by the students urge the ing of herring caught off the Korean release of arrested students; the coast, the results proving very sal. cessation of civil warfare; the factory from the point of view of te Preservation of the country's foreign community. He is visiting territorial integrity and sover-the port of Rashin' where he hopes eighty; freedom of speech, press fand assembly; and non-recogni-of find a suitable location for the tion of all agreements based on erection of a factory, smoking the the "Hirota prinelples."—Reuter. herring as freshly caught along the Korean coast, He has called his frm the Siberian' Products Ca, and is packing the Kippered herring is against the Reds. Permission for pairs in an all paper, a very atta: the use of the compound -had been tive packet. The Company proposes requested by the military commander to supply large quantities to Shang: in. Huchow and was granted, hai, Tientsin and 'Tokyo at prices for course. After marching into the below the Scottish ones, 'The quaily compound the soldiers were lined up ig as good but the fish is sughly ily decorated with' smaller. bunting and with a picture of the The company also propose to cut great leader prominently displayed. ham and bacon in the English max Here the men stood: for two hours ner, purchasing Russian pigs, bre awaiting the general; the only re-from the best Russian animals, Ni Taxation allowed them was the stachturally this line should also cent ing of their rifles and the depositing onto the Shanghai market at muc of six or eight sub-machine guns on below, the European lines and there the ground. seems to be every prospect of tt new Industry being successful, Wit Milltarists to Dominate 8 factory on the coast, freight chane!

It has been suggested as a pos-to south China and" Japan will sibility that there is a disposition on very low and railway rates to tt the part of the military authorities interior of Manchoukuo itself, wil to demonstrate to mission schools, admit of low prices for these smoked and perhaps specially to this school, goods which have hitherto beet the seeming intention of the rather prohibitive in price. That militarists to dominate school life in month by month new industries at every particular, with the possibia being opened, some of which wert exception (for the present) of the' never dreamt of before and are ctly curriculum; and the curriculum is possible under the conditions ext evidently a minor consideration in ing in the country. respect to military training. as is Frult growing 1s another indust shown by the provincial authorities which is advancing rapidly and i taking from their studies for three months every year the entire class Kwantung Province there are fof the first year of the senior middle Helens apples and pears grown nor which vie with the best Japant [school for intensive military training fat the provincial capital, and American lines.

In connection with this thought it may be of, interest to note that the Government's appointee as military. instructor in this school, half of whose salary of $80 a month is paid bby the school, has lately sent in to his superiors' two accusations, one asserting that the school proctor, a man recommended by the party '(ax required by provincial regulations), is unpatriotic and the other declaring that among other things the school lax in military discipline, The fact is. of course, that the school is doing its best to live up to the numerous military requirements; but "when it comes to demanding that not only every student shall cut his hair so short that it makes him look like an embryo Buddhist priest, but Jail the teachers must do the same, it! is no wonder that a certain reluctance and hesitation exists,

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