The Archive · 1937

CITY EDUCATIONAL _PLANS PROGRESS

53,000 Children in School Under Compulsion Order

The free education committee under the Bureau of Education of the City Government of Greater Shan hal has just completed a programme which ims to reduce the number "Jot illiterate people ini Shanghai.

The new educational order 1s expected to be complied with by all Parents and guardians of children of Echoot" age. Punishment" will be meted out io those who fail to send that chitiren tothe free schools OF lasses operated by the bureau, In the rst Instance, a letter of

ent, If within five days after receipt tung will ye serve the pars "tnisTelter they fail to vend: their children to school, their names will ported outside the schoo! ay. a the case that the second warning 4 gain ignored, the parent Wil required {2 pay' ang tro "al 3 be replaced Uy labour service It dollar to $2. "rhe monetary fine ma

beyond! the' moons of the parent.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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