Fines or Labour Conscription for Offending Elders Nanking, July 17.
Responsible family elders who fall to send their children who have reached the school age to school will fee frst given a warning, according a set of detailed measures for the enforcement of compulsory education Just promulgated by the Ministry of Education.
Ignoring the warning, the measures provide, their names will be pub-Tished, and fines will be Imposed upon them if they still fail to. obey the government ruling.
Stubborn offenders who even dis regard the fines will be'subject tabour conscription, it is further stipulated.
In order to expedite the execution Jot lite compulsory.education programme, provisions are also made for the organization of committees in different district and municipalities to take charge of the work—Central News. north of the province, in San Yuan, and for the last thirteen years in this city. He has gained the con-Nidence of the Chinese church leaders in a marked degree and has played, large part in the development of Christian work in this area, His departure will leave a big gap, Dut he goes to his new post with the best wishes of his colleagues and his many Chinese friends. Mr. Watson, who is travelling by Canada and America hopes to cross the Atlantic in the Queen' Mary, and will be: ace companied by the Rev. G. A. Young, who is going home for a well-earned furlough. Mr. Young during the last '@ve years has been stationed in Sian and has done a notable piece of work among students and officials. by establishing end carrying en a Fellowship of Bible Study which has transformed the lives of a number of young men.
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