The application was considered by the Public Utilities Committee when details of the company's financial position and the necessity for inereasing fares were provided and. discussed. A suggestion that the re-Quest for revision of one of the Clauses of the franchise afforded an [opportunity for a further revision to elude provision for the payment of royalty to the Council. as in the case of other Public Utility Companies. wag also considered. In so far as the effect on bus fares was concerned. the company's provision for renewals of rolling stock appeared to be on too Suly 10, Special efforts are being made by CChinesg authorities at Chungking to Persuiade overseas Chinese to send their sons and daughters to China for further education. and as a. result there has been an ever-increasing umber of overseas Chinese students returning to their" mother' country. According to the Hongkong correspondent of the "Chinese American Dally News," Mr. Vu Chuen-hsien, head of the educational department of the Overseas Chinese Committee, has Been travelling in many places {for the purpose, It is revealed by Mr. Vu that most of the overseas Chinese who have returned to their mother country for further education have entered military of aviation schools and that thio fact shows the effect of the war of resistance upon the minely of young overseas Chinese. Various methods are being used by the Government to make the work easier for the overseas Chinese students, it jo stated. In view of the fact that the averse: Chinese have been away from thei mother country for a long time. en trance examinations for them are not fag strict as those for the students at home,
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