what was known as mass-education {in the interior. In view of the painstaking preparations and the careful measures which have been devised to. compel the illiterate to enter free classes one or two hours a day, the Jurisdiction of the City Government have been divided into numerous districts to which competent educa tionists have been assigned to carry out this campaign. With the assisttance of the Bureau of Public Safety, a census is being taken to ascertain the number of the illiterate persons. The Bureau of Education, which has j|shouldered much of the campaign work, has prepared standard. textbooks which will make it possible to learn the characters by easy stages. Especially encouraging is the enthusiasm displayed by the Kuomintang members here in promoting the project, Mr. Pan being an executive member of the Shanghai Party Head-Jquarters.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.