Educational progress in the Tu ternational Settlement during 1936, was moral rather than material.
This deduction is plainly drawn from the succinct yet comprehensive report prepared by the Superinendent of Education of the Shanghai Municipal Council. Financial string gency has compelled the Council to call a halt to its programme, approved "in 1930, so that the plans which, among other things, aimed at the establishment of a total of 23 Municipal Schools for Chinese by 1938, have been profoundly modified. The decision for the time being to discontinue the building of additional schools is all the more regrettable because the Agures of a steady increase in the attendance of pupils show how great is the de-
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