Alarmed at the alleged invasion of Japanese culture in the occupied are; around Shanghai, Chinese educators, cultural workers," booksellers, publishers and others are reported to be making preparations to hold a joint meeting to discuss
erding to a Chinese report yester-to cope with the situation, day.
The movement for the protection of Chinese culture was said to have started by booksellers who, in a manifesto, called the attention of the Chinese public in Shanghai to the cultural inroads recently launched by the Pootung regime.
According to the manifesto, the Pootung regime has ordered the censorship. of textbooks used, in local Chfhese schools and "the registration of such schools with its educational section, the printing of pro-Japanese textbooks by traitorous merchants, the seizure of the Tienhoukung primary school and the opening of an "educational office" in the International Settlement.
For the propagation of Apro} Japanese education in Pootung, Nantao and other places, the regime was also reported to have opened more than 30 free schools, the total enrolment being about 2,500.
A request by Danenberg to the wi ness to accompany him to see a girl friend off on the Empress of Japan was made on March @3, When the accused came into Room 619, where Mr, Magan and Dr, Coolidge were sleeping soundly he was wearing.a camel hair overcoat, He locked the door when they left the room and they proceeded to Room 211, Here the accused moved about in an excited manner, and told the witness that he could use Dr. Coolidge's raincoat, A scarf belonging to the doctor was taken by Danenberg, while the camel hair overcoat, also belonged to this person, From the hotel they went to the Sun Ca, to buy a present, for which Danenberg paid $5.0, for the girl friend, and from there to the Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf where they boarded the Empress of Japan, At the reception desk Danenberg asked for (he cabin of a person named Sung, the witness being led to believe that the girl friend's name Mary Sung, They were fold tha! the person was in cabin 425, but on going there they did not sec anybody. After looking around the boat together, Danenberg: asked the witness to stay at the cabin while he looked around upstairs During this time the gong and syren went to summon non-passengers here, and running through the ship the witness was able to get on to the wharf, He immediately made his way to the Customs Jetty in order to meet the tender bringing back visitors from the Empress of Japan, but he did not see Danenberg.
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