Although facing great difficulties, the Christian universities of China are still cantying on their educational work in free China with every means in their power, and courageously tackling the many with ' which they are confronted. Most of the universities in the group have been forced to move their pupils to outlying districts in order to avoid the war, and are finding it hard to enrol new students, and provide adequate equipment. The work is going forward successfully, however, due to the enthusiasm of teachers and learners. Doctors, scientists, and theological students are being thoroughly trained for social services throughout China, and the valuable work is undiminished by the Sino-Japanes¢ hostilities, The Central. China College of Wuchang, Hupeh, has been forced to move elsewhere since the Japanese occupation of Wuhan. It found a haven in the city of Hsichow, which is only about a day's car travel from the Burma border. At this place the college has started life again, buildings and grounds being put at its disposal by wealthy Chinese citizens of the neighbourhood. Both staff and students have settled down to the new arrangements, and close ccoperation is being established between the two. A difficulty confronting the college in its new quarters, however, is that as the senior pupils graduate, others fail to take their place in the lower classes. The province of Yunnan, in which Hsichow is situated, is backward, and difficult of access, and although it was possible to lead a group of eager students to the new headquarters, it is another matter to fill up the classes with new pupils from a distance, or from a neighbouring, backward area. This problem is likely to become more acute as the exile goes en.
"A Remarkable Gathering"
A Miss Bertha Hensman, of the Women's College at Chengtu, writes. "Here in Chengtu we have the most remarkable gathering of university professors and intellectual leaders to be found, I should say, anywhere in the world. We have five universities ce-operating in this campus and in our City. Hospital, besides Ginling College working closely beside us. We do not stop often to pride ourselves on being a remarkable community, but we enjoy living and working together." The position is similar in many parts of free China, where groups have collaborated to provide a form of higher education for Chinese men and women.
The committee of the united Chi tian Colleges in America, has laid down certain principles governing all its activities on behalf of the Colleges in China, It seeks to bring about a maximum of ce-operation among individual colleges in unoccupied China. This committee is also striving to build up a Rehabilitation Fund after peace is restored. Members of the committee. stress the - need for strengthening higher education, concentration of forces of all the Christian Colleges in China, fir "an effort to maintain the movement as a whole. "Outstanding quality and service will alone give permanence to our work" says one.
Other aspects of the development of free China, apart from educational activity, include the work being done by the Ca-operative Industries. It is planned to establish thirty thousand small ce-operative societies over fifteen provinces, and already some two thousand of these units are in operation. These units work closely together, and are so placed as to make full use of the facilities of the district. Internal communications in free China have also been developed. since thousands of miles of roads have been built, telegraph lines erected, and railroads lengthened.
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