Plans to Remain Unchan; ged for Present: Answer to Japanese Residents' Request The Shanghsi Municipal Council having given further consideration to the memorandum by the Japanese residents Corporation requesting a revision of the Council's educational policy, last Wednesday resolved to inform the Corporation that investiga tion and discussion of the subject from all points of view have clearly shown that it is not at present pra Hleable to further the educational in terests of any foreign section of the community. by any means which would involve a curtailment of the Couneit's building programme, view of the pressing necessity for raising the standard and increasing the scove of Chinese education in the Settlement.
It Is, therefore, proposed for the the time being to continue the pres-fent policy, which is still in the experimental stage, of "providing such Additional Municipal schools as the available funds permit and simuttan. focusly assisting foreign and Chinese private schools as heretofore by the fiske of grants-in-aid.
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