$65,000,000 Damage Done to Country's Institutions Chungking, June 11.
Figures just revealed by the Ministry of Education show terrific losses of property, equipment and books by Chinese universities and colleges as a result of the Sino-Japanese hostilities.
It is stated here that a year before the hostilities broke out, in 1936, building and equipment d by China's 108 institutions ®t" higher learning were valued at $86,000,000. Losses sustained through the war by eight universities alone, it is revealed, totalled nearly $18,000,000.
Losses sustained by Government private colleges and universities are estimated by one source to total over $65,000,000, or over three-quarters of their total value. Of 5,500,000 books in Chinese college libraries, it is further stated, 2,800,000 volumes or Over half have been lost to date.
In order to meet the heavy losses of laboratory apparatus and reference books, the Sino-British Boxer Indemnity Fund Administration last year gave $500000 to two universities in Yunnan and Shensi for the purchase of the necessary equipment.—Reuter.
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