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Show HALF SCHOOL PUPILS JAPANESE CHILDREN HONOU'U', T. H, Feb. t. There are approximately 20.00, Japanese children chil-dren attending the Japanese language schools of the territory, accondinr to estimates prepared by th. depurtnient of public instruction. This number la equal to or.e-half the total enrollment of the public arhoola in the island.. Following a lengthy and sometimes heated discussion of the foreign language lan-guage school question, the recent special spe-cial session of the legislature passed a law. suggested by some of the Jspa-ne.e Jspa-ne.e leaders, regulating these schools cutting down their hours to one hour daily six days a week and placing I their t-achtrs and textbooks under ton- i trol of the department ot public ln- struction. ( |