The Archive · 1940

Free Board and Clothing

During their term at the college the cadets receive free board and clothing and ¥.5 pocket-money each month, On becoming oticers they are. divan a grant for uniform of $60 and pay, divided into three grades, of $69, $85 and $50 a month.

The Chinese principal the Military "Academy is Gen. Wang Sung-chuan, who Is also Vice-Pres dent of the Public Safety Department of the "Provisional Government." Te. was an officer in the army in the old Manchu Days, a military. student in Japan and speaks Japanese fluently, After the 1911 revolution he rose gradually in the army to become uchiin of Fukien Province, until he Judging from what he had read in newspapers and heard. by word of mouth reports, he hal thought Can-Ton Was a deserted place containing, few Chinese, he recalled.

Capt. Bryant was Impressed by the sanitary facilities and educational institutions In the city.

It was inevitable, he admitted. that! third- party nationals would suffer inconveniences to some extent while Japanese military operations were going on. He said it was his opinion that Japan was making an effort to recognize the interests of third-perty nationals.

The British Air Attache expressed a hope that foreign vessels would soon bbe permitted to operate on the Pearl

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