The resolutions to be adopted by this mass meeting of students were set.out in the instructions to universities, So of them were: "to send telegrams th the Chinese people at large urging them to extirpate Communism and the Kuomintang; to urge friendly collaboration with Japan end Manchoukuo; to address friendly enquiry and send messages of goodwill to the Japanese Arm; to parade after the mass meeting and call at the Japanese Embassy, the offices of the Japanese Army Special Mission snd. the. offices of other Japanese organs."
The students were ordered to shout, "down with the Kuomintang, down with Chiang Kai-shek and be loyal to the Hsin Min Hui The universities were also ordered to muke Hsin Mim flags and display them.
This second set of orders was also ignored by the foreign universities. Now the next move rests with the Provisional Government and the Japanese army behind it. It is generally considered that the authorities concerned never expected the foreign universities to obey their orders and the move is generally interpreted as the first step towards closing up foreign educational orga tions in this area.
Certain it is that the Japanese army authorities. dislike seeing independent universities here. The sorry record of edüéation in Manchoukuo is an example of what the conquering nation prefers to do—no secondary education, no higher education and the text books of primary schools " farce.
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