The Embassies concerned have taken up the matter of these orders te 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 bulldings.go, but the question arises as to whether the foreigners who run them have any right to protect the Chinese students in them from Chinese souther ide facto or de jure. In other words they cannot confer any degree of extrality om the students under. them, However for authority to enter the) university to impose authority in the students constitutes - violation of foreign property.
The position is delicate and dimeult and where "and how it will end is Gificult to say. The hard facts are) that the Japanese do not like to see, in territory they occupy and over which they feel they have conquer-rights, educational institutions which are not under their control and in "which Chinese students can get education of a kind which the eet. 2 Japanese would prefer they did not
The answer to that seems to be that somehow and sometime the Japanese 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 occupa tion.
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 un common 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 single one of the police knew what 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 slay 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 foreed to 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 p2- triatic but they are forced to attend mass meetings where political re: solutions are passed and_ politico speeches made for their own sakes ud those of their parents, These mast meetings of unwilling students all carrying flags alo, of course, good meat for Japanese press photographers arid make excellent propaganda in Japanese newspapers to be seen by the people who ate paying their taxes to run the war.
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