1, The widespread spirit of nationalixsm—A professor from the Wuchang Teachers College, Mr. Vu Chia-chu, Teetured in Changsha carly in the summer of 1924, laying rear stress on the need that every. Jcountey develop its own system of education, apart from the aid or interference of outsiders. This deal of approval. feries of Teetures aroused "great 2, The revolutions of the two Outside Control Steps On national educational associations.
Soon after Mr. Yu's lectures came It was most striking to compare the public utterances of the da} following the walk-out with those of four or five days Inter. By this time the control of the group had passed entirely out of the hands of the local ring-leaders who had compelled the mob to act in concert. It now lay in the hands of an outside group of agitators, organized to foment trouble. Acting under: their control, scouts ware sent to other schools' in the city as well as to Siangtan and to Liling and promptly caused a strike of a similar, but usually less terious, nature. On the first day out, the groan that walked out, numbering somewhat over 200, organized an anti-Yali association, poured their woes out on the pages of a too willing press, denouncing Yuh, drawing attention, at length, to its shortcomings, and urging those who still staid inside, to come and join the strikers. It was interesting to note that in the College of Arts, in the three upper classes, no single student left; and of course, no recitation or exercise was omitted. Classes went on as usual. The greatest defection was
the three upper years of the the tow eat college lass and Middle School The men outside zant buck drastic messages to the steady ones:—"If you do not leave the school within 24 hours after you get this note, we shall telegraph your names all over China and ruin Your whole future careers." Even the Chinese teachers, all of whom remained entirely loyal, received sarcastic appeals:—"You are all Chinese like ourselves, with the same coJout of skin and hair. Had we been in your position, we should have joined the students at once. the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Educ tion at Nanking, where definite votes were introduced against Christian education, votes that were greatly modified only by the wise tactics of maturer Chinese leaders.
In October, a further stimulus to the anti-Christian sentiment was riven at the annual meeting of the united provincial education associa tions at Kaifeng. There, votes were passed denouncing Christian education and calling upon the Minister of Education in Peking make regulations that would either eliminate or at least greatly restrict the activities of Christian Institutions. Seed of this inflam-motory sort fell on receptive soil in Hunan. Trouble-makers began to watch for opportunities of destructive endeavor.
The Ping! ug Organization 8. Probably the most potent destructive force at work in Hunan at the moment is the group of agitators who give allegiance to one or another "ism." Ninety miles away from the capital are the famous. Pinghsiang coal mines, where thousands of the miners have been made members of one or the other of the two labour organizations there, one the "Ma Tang" or Marsian Group; and the other the "An Tang" or Anarchistie Group. The latter is in reality the Labour party at the most extreme left; the former is the Communistic party. Two years ago Governor Chao found trouble brewing in the industrial group and executed two leaders of the Labour party. This Jdrove that group to Shanghai where it has: its headquarters, This left the Hunen field, from Pinghsiang
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