The request was refused, and the Yedsors specified as follows: (1) That throughout they (the students) have shown no desire to carry out either in letter or in spirit the terms of the engagements they entered with "us.
in direct contravention, of the signed statement which they gave us as a condition of. their! having the use of the buildings they have publicly denied our: ownership of the property. (3) That they have openly identified themselves with the anti-Chri movement. (4) That the edui tional results of the management school have been altogether disappointing. (5) That long _before this request was made they. had already determined tp continue in occupation of the buildings through the vacation and into! next term.
The Mission had already through the British Consul brought to the! notice of the Commissioner for} Foreign Affairs the false statements which the Nan Ch'iang principal was making regarding the ownership of the property, and informed him of the facts. At their request, contained in a letter of January 22, the Consul ai wrote to the Commissioner giving full statement of the case, and requesting him to take such' steps as should sgeure that the buildings. should be completely vacated—immediately on the close of the term in order that there might be no difficulties about the Mission resuming occupation.
None of these! letters was so much as acknow-
The Police Intervene After the term closed on the 29 two teachers and about ten students continued to occupy the buildings, ang it was manifest that they had no intention of leaving. It seemed: necessary to take action to assert Mission's Control "Cancelled"
Next day the only communica: tion from him was a letter to the Consul, in which he said that he had been investigating the—trust on which the College property held (of which he seems to have had a very inaccurate version), and found that the property was' held in trust by the Mission for—the Anglo-Chinese College; and that, since now the "popular sentiment" was all in favour of the "recovery of educational control" by the Chinese, the control of the property' by the' Mission was consequently "cancelled." On receipt of this etter the Consul called on him and endeavoured to get him to realise that there was such a thing Taw to be taken into account, but would not move from his position, His only suggestion for deal ing with the immediate situation was that the Consul should instruct the missionaries to leave the building, while he would secure that the teachers and students also left, and that both sides should—remain out until the question of ownership was settled. To which the Consul replied that he certainly would not order his nationals—to leave what was their own property.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.