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 seven million boys and girls in her schools, less than one in fifty of her population. There never has been even an approach to adequate provision for primary schools and middle schools properly to feed the established colleges and universities, and in the government colleges and universities there has not been in recent years a high standard. Now, almost no provision is being made even for maintenance, to say nothing of expansion. Were it not for the missionary institutions and the Indemnity College at Peking (Tsinghua), opportunities for higher education in China would be almost entirely lacking. Even the missionary institutions have suffered greatly and are operating under handicaps. Some have been compelled recently to close. The revolt against foreign influence, the general insurgency of Young China, and the sympathetic tolerance of some of the missionary staffs have produced a tendency to despise discipline, with results seriously detrimental to scholarship.

The latest developments in the domestic military contest have been the realignment of northern leaders under the direction of Chang Tso-lin in order to stop the northward advance of the so far victorious Canton-Hankow forces and the steady advance of the latter eastward in the Yangtze Valley south of the River. Sun Chuan-fang has been eliminated; Chang Tsung-chang, who succeeded him in the Shanghai region, has been evicted from that region; and the Nationalist (Canton-Hankow) army is in control of the Shanghai area. The for-