The Embassies concerned have taken up the matter of these orders ie universities run by foreign institutions, but though it is safe to say that every effort will be made to keep them open, the positions might prove a little dificult. The universities are foreign property as far as land and buildings go, but the question arises as to whether the foreign ers who runs them have any right to protect the Chinese students in them from Chinese authority, de facto or de jure. In other words they "cannot confer any degree of extrality on the students under them. Howevek for authority to enter the university to impose authority in the students ' constitutes. violation of foreign property.
The position is delicate and difficult end where and how it will end is difficult to say. The hard facts sre that the Japanese do not like to see, in territory they occupy and over which they feel they have conquerers's rights, educational institutions which are not under their control and in which Chinese students can get education of a kind which the Japanese would prefer they did not get.
The answer to that seems to be that somehow and sometime the Jepanese will get what they want and it is not impossible that foreign universities may join Chinese universities that have moved to territory which is not under Japanese occupation.
Dictionary Found "Not Dangerous"
Those who operate primary and middle schools in Peiping these days have to keep a wary eye open. Raids by police on schools are not uncommon and teachers' rooms are searched' for suspicious literature. One instance happened recently to a school your correspondent knows. The police descended suddenly and searched class rooms and teachers' rooms, In the room of the teacher. of English the police found an English language dictionary. Not a single one of the police knew what it was but were convinced it was highly suspicious and probably a propaganda work, The book was impounded and the teacher put under arrest. The teacher had to stay under arrest at the police station for four hours while the police satisfied themselves that the dictionary was not a dangerous book.
Students of these primary and middle schools are of course used for propaganda purposes by the local authorities, Under threat of their parents being marked down as Communist sympathisers all students are forced ^io attend celebrations of Japanese victories and other mass meetings. Chinese teachers in some of these schools say that the ma. jority of students are intensely pa-triatic but they are forced to attend mass meetings where political resolutions are passed and political speeches made for their own sakes those of their parents.
These mass meetings of unwilling students all carrying flags are, of course, good meat for. Japanese press photographers and make excellent propaganda in Japanese newspapers to be seen by the people who are paying their taxes to run the war.
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