With the ce-operation of the labour Project Committee headed by Mrs. Robert Fitch, vocational education is being pushed in some of the larger camps. Tailoring, toy-making, basket-quaking, shoe-making and embroidery work are being taught to several Inundred refugees, particularly among, the women, order fo find out the needs and heck up the results achieved in the various camps, some 20 inspectors, and four secretaries are employed by the Education Committee. Each spector is made responsible for supervising the work of 12 to 15 number of urgent problems, however, are now facing the mem bers of the Education Committee of the SERE. As the weather is. gel warmer every day, most of the refugees are found i need of lighter clothes. Some camps need bathing, facilities and fresh' water. Another problem is the need of funds to eatr on this educational programme. Fur educational supplies alone, a sum of $1,500 is required every month, not to" mention the teachers' allow and running expenses. the Education Committee would like to establish special educational and social centres in the neighbourhood of some of the larger camps, in order to cecommodate more students and give the refugees a better educational Annamite Arrested Shanghai, Apr. 8 Thanks {o strenuous efforts by the French Police, an Annamite steward off a French passenger liner was re-Jeased by the Japanese naval authorities yesterday afternoon, safe and sound but considerably alarmed and determined not to go wandering around Hongkew alone in future, The steward went ashore on to the Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Cos Hongkew Whart from the MIN, Jean Laborde three or four days' ego Jand then disappeared; the ship sailed without him on Monday. It was subsequently' found that he had been iched up by a Japanese patrol because he seemed to be a "suspicious character." ig looked "Hike a Chinese," possessed no passport, pass oF other papers and "was wandering around Hongkew In an apparently 'The French Police, however, were able to convince the Japanese' naval authorities of the man's bona fides, it learned, and he was released yes-today afternoon," Beyond the Inconvenience, he was none the worse for for the mishap.
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