Anhwei, Aug. 3.
Perhaps the readers of the "North China Daily News" wil be interested in hearing something. recent " nation-wide examinations ordered by the Bureau of Educa ition in Nanking. In some provinces these have been conducted for some years, but in Anhwei I believe this is the first attempt since the old examinations for' official degrees were abolished.
The examinations in Anhwei were bound for trouble from the start. The new Commissioner of Educa: ition was late in ordering all graduates of Junior Middle and Higher Primary Schools to take them. [Objections were raised at once. as there is no uniform curriculum fused throughout Anhwei and textbooks are many and diverse. These objections were met by asking each school to submit questions" from their textbooks on each—subject. This was done and naturally' the aggregate of questions was enormous. Then by a process of selection the number was greatly reduced and these were supposed to be supplied to each examinee!
This, reduced list was given, to] the principal of a girls' middle school for mimeographing but] instead of doing this at once, he et his girls have the list and Idelayed giving it out to the other schools. "The time was very short Jand this gave his girls a" great
The trick was mage, soon discovered land' caused 'a commotion among! ithe other schools where most. of} ithe students refused at first to, take the examinations, The principal of the schools had a most dificult time "in getting their] Pupils to agree to take them and many were the letters back and] orth and the meetings. The whole affair seems to have been handled very badly by the "educational authorities and the students. need-easly rubbed the wrong way.
Dairen, Aug. 12.
The chief prosecutor, Mr. Shinsei tkeuchi, has formally charged the Sheng An pirates with murder and robbery. It is understood that the sharge. of robbery includes. piracy. The ate for the trial has not yet been fixed.
The decision to hold the trial Port. Arthur is taken as definite evidence that the Japanese Government denies, the extradition to Germany of the five men implicated in the affair.
Reuter learns that Wang Ying, the Chinese second mate of the s. Sheng An, has made state-Sacn inhll no' mention ts made of the al fan of the sail the vessel to Valparalo for pirates ai ispasal. He gives a description of the capture of the ship and the Killing of ten persons, including three Russians, Arthur the member of the band, had iginally. declared that his' four 'German companions and he' had hoped to ai] the Sheng An to Valparaiso, the ship ana her cargo of cost and there "they planned to sell Bot
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the Chinese. members crew had been promised a share the profits, lent on, this point ther weight to a. declin the. five pirates ori however, i adding fur-here that mally had some other Port of destination in
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