An awkward situation has arisen. for the Cantonese schools which owing. to the alr-raids, were removed to Hongkong and Macao. General Wu Chin-chun, Chief Training OMmcer, for reservists, has made it imtrative that the Commissioner of Education should demand that these middle-school students shall come to Canton to take a course of military training. Were they studying in Canton, they would have to take two for three hours off for drill, and the Fest of the day they could study, but naturally they will not be able to return to Hongkong or Macao once they have started their military studies here.
Many objections have been raised to these schools operating on foreign soil. "In fact a petition aimed to force all to remove to places in 'Kwangtung has just gone forward to Minister of Education. 'The main point raised therein was that these Students are not doing their share of war-time work, and not receiving' the benefit of war-time education, which is a phrase that means simply propaganda.
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