Hongkong, June 20.
Hongkong is in a mingled state of amusement and irritation over a "political controversy" that has arisen at the Diocesan Boys' School, one of the oldest institutions in the Colony.
A number of Chinese pupils, mainly from the senior classes, have "gone on strike" in protest against the temporary appointment of a Formosan national as Senior Prefect during the absence of school prefects at matrix culation examinations.
The trouble arose when the Headmaster, Mr. G. A. Goodban, appointed a Formosan-born Chinese as Senior Prefect, A deputation approached Bishop Hall, Chairman of the School Committee, and threatened to walkout if the appointment was not rescinded.
Despite appeals from the Headmaster and from Sir Robert Kotewall, leader of the local Chinese community and himself an Old Boy,. over 120 boys stayed away, three whole classes being emptied. The majority of these were day boys, only about a dozen boarders being absent.
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