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Show UU 1 1 BELGIAN BOY MAKES RAPID PROGRESS IN SCHOOL HERE LAWRENCE, Mass. Tho remarkable remark-able progress In school mado by Michael Schoonjana, aged 14, a Belgian Bel-gian refugee now in the sixth grade of the Bruce grammar school, was called to public attention by further promotion of the hoy by the school authorities. au-thorities. On September 4, 1919, he entered en-tered the special school here Unable to speak one word of English. In four "Jumps" he-became a sixth grade pupil, pu-pil, notwithstanding tho fact that he had hut scant education in the Belgian Bel-gian schools. He saw the Germans bombard his home village for fifteen dayB, finally taking It. His uncle and cousin were killed by a bomb from a French plane. nn |