The Archive · 1939

Schools and Health

Municipal schools include the College FMunicipal Francaise, and Ecole Franco-Annamite, for foreign children, with an mrolment of 878, and the Ecole Municipal Traréo-Chinoise, Ecole Primaire Chapsal, fen: it of 2,520 children.

Ecole Primaire de Lagréne, with an

The Collège Municipal, which operates under a curriculum ug to that [of French secondary schools, is educating students to the Baccalauréat examination standard. There are also numerous private religious and lay institutions. The Chinese schools alone included 54,000 students in im the Far Eas and tombs and bordered by insanitary creeks and muddy ditches. In less than half a century the French have transformed ihat unprepossessing piece of waste land into an opulent city. This splendid result is due to the tenacity and to the spirit of enterprise of the French, and to the farsighted wisdom of their authorities, as well as to the support granted them in their work by the Chinese and the. other nation-of French Military im Chins, Colonel Casseville.—Josepho.

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