LEADERS FOR CHINA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23204, 31 May 1937, Page 5

LEADERS FOR CHINA

A. -carefully-selected.. group, -'of sons.-: and .daughters of .high chiefs, in ■ .the..:; border .provinces'-,cf -China ..are riow',\" undergoing—training at fa''school. hi • Nanking, ' Many"'of. them' are princes v . and. princesses.af. Mongolia. ~. :The -school-:-was established about seven years ago, and' from- -variousj. parts.*of.-Tibet s&ym-r» Mongolia..', :Sm ; k'iafe : places I'SO Va^McHe.t'that-'.f.'the.. .'ir*e'riag£ , y Chinese knows of them but vaguely, came b f - t Sjn|m'y tribes. The egpeci- . ally the'-lattcr.' are rivfriibere'd arnOng the world's most backward people. Because of centuries' of self-enforced seclusion, they are-ignorant x>f the ways.,... of the fnoderri-'lwd'rld, ,but,,furidaniehf,T, -, ally .thevare liighly'.;ihtelligent.. Tlie":;; Mongols, arid the„Tibetahs,'realise..their,;.: shbrteoriiirigs;.' so ". wliefv tpi'e. .institute.;.'., was. established' in,'1929 the parents - of ■" these -,' rempte.; .'parts.'. srateji.",, fujly.. sent their,.-children .to.•Hankin'&'V They'. ,'hopeC that' thesr'.yourig 'Peopl&'.&m:): return to w ,the{r s riative s latias,sis;able-arid £ intelligent leader^.. capable-of'ih-trodu'e.-,.'; i'ng. the ".needed.;;- .fraterrps; ,a??iori-g "ihsh ;',«, people. • ; V/,.".,'i.f .' -V;:/ "y ,r,••;•!-;.-"'. 'v-'>V<.