Modern German Ship Under Construction 'Shanghai is soon to welcome a new modern vessel, the North German Lloyd s. Scharnhorst, which is now being built in the Weser Shipyard, Germany. When completed. she will be commissioned on' the Far' East me of the company, and she will be one of the most tip-to-date shins plying between Europe and the Orient The s. Scharnhorst is to be tween 15,000 tons and 17,000" tons. She is named after the great Prussian general Scharnhorst and is being built to accommodate 142 frst class passengers, 100 in the tourist class, and 120 ina department reserved for Special Bringing severe criticism to bear [Council for educational purposes, the Japanese Residents' Corporation, in lengthy document submitted to' the Couneit last Wednesday, prepared by their committee for the study of the [Council's Administration Affairs, sug-Bests abandonment of direct control fand management of schools by the Council and in their place a system subsidies to local schools controlled Jand managed by various foreign communities in the Settlement, it was revealed on Thursday. It is further suggested that the ratio of appropria-ons {0 each individual foreign schoo! should be based on the number of children accommodated therein oF on the' number of rate-payers, The criticism is based ehieny on their claim that half of the sum appropriated is spent on the education Jof roughly 1,800 foreign children, and that the balance is spent on" the Councit's schools for Chinese which have an enrollment of around 6,000, The memorandum claims that "the majority of school children resident within the limits of the Settlement jate not given a chance of enjoying Jo share in the benefits of the Shanghai Municipal Council."
An Indifferent Attitude In connection with the system in force at present of the various tionalities individually taking care of their own children of school age, the committee accuses the Council' of assuming un indifferent attitude if it were taken for granted that so long as foreign boys and girls fare concerned, the education of minority of school-children was to be undertaken and that of the majorty ignored."
The grants-in-aid to educational Jestablishments of various nationalities Jare considered inadequate as they "are but a part of the expenditures these establishments are undertaking and that a greater portion of the expenditures are...... from contrlbutions by some charitable person or from the treasuries of the Residents'
Associations concerned."
The memorandum continu must also be borne in mind, in. this connection, that all these educational establishments other than those which are under the direct control and management of the Shanghai Municipal Council, are not only bearing the burden of ordinary expenses for the education of their school-children but are from time to time confronted by the necessity of either having new school-houses or of enlarging their existing buildings."
With this preamble the memorandum sets forth the following suggestions:
"That the Council abandon its present system of controlling and managing S.M.C. schools; that the Council distribute subsidies to local schools which are being controlled and managed by various foreign -communities; that the fund to be appropriated yearly hereafter to such subsidies be fixed at the sum as budget ted for the fiscal year 1934, including the ordinary and extraordinary ex: enses, as its standard; and that the Fatio of appropriations to each ideal foreign school be based on the number of school children accommodated therein or on the num-transport, ber of SMC. ratepayers:
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