Acting in accordance with orders from the Minister of Education, the Commissioner of Education ' for Greater Shanghai has forbidden the authorities of Fuhtan University, Kiangwan, to establish a. special course of the teaching of chemicals used in warfare on the ground that this will "easily produce bad results."
The University authorities, who have always shown a keen interest in the promotion of western sciences, decided recently to establish the course in connection with the sum mer school in view of the interest Which the Chinese people are evincing in chemical warfare and the great strides made by foreign nations in this connection. It was their hope, in establishing this course, to strengthen China's nation= fal deforce and the new department was to be known as the "National Defence Chemistry Department." A number of specialists were invited to give instruction and orders were placed with various firms for the The university authorities claimed [to have received hundreds of letters m-€hinese everywhere expressing appreciation at the establishment of such a course and a large number fof students are said to have express fed their willingness to study the subject.
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