Peiping, June 25.
The future of foreign universities in Peiping, of which there are three appears to be at stake as a result the latest move by the Education Ministry of the Provisional Government, There has been just conelud-"anti-Communist and anti-Kuomintang" week, one of the prin-joel parts of which concerned the students of all schools and untverslties.
Orders as to procedure during the entire week were sent to the foreign universities as well as schools by the Education Ministry. For the first day of the propaganda week the presidents of all universities were ordered to hoist the Hsin Min flag while the student body sang.the isin Ming song. The was to be followed by speeches by the presidents to the students of an anti-Communist and anti-Kuomintang nature.
This the three foreign universities, Yen Ching (American), Fu Jen (Catholic) and the Sino-French, all promptly refused to do, Then came orders for the final day of the propaganda week when all) students had to attend a mass meeting in a section of the Forbidden City and. pass anti-Kuomintang, anti-Chiang Kai-shek and anti-Communist resolutions. The Ministry ordered the foreign universities in unequivocal terms to send their students and to send "officers to lead the students," presumably members of the faculty being meant.
To Urge Friendly Collaboration The resolutions to be adopted by this mass meeting of students were set out in the instructions to univer. sities. Some of them were: "to send] telegrams to the Chinese people at Large urging them to extirpate Communism and the Kuomintang; to urge friendly collaboration with Japan end Manchoukuo; to address friend Ty enquiry and "send messages of goodwill to the Japanese Army; to Parade after the mass meeting and call at the Japanese Embassy, the offices of the Japanese Army Special Mission amd 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 poke Hsin Min flogs and display them, Provisional Government and Japanese army behind it. It ts ger erally considered that the authority 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 organizations in' this area, Ceftain it is that the Japanese army authorities dislike seeing Independent universities here, 'The sorry record of education In Manchoukuo 1s an example of what the conquering nation prefers to do—no. secondary education, no higher edu. cation and the text books of primary' schools & farce.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.