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Show SIN PRINCE Native Chi1 are1.! Kc"t m School; Oilier- Are Forced to Attend RANGOON, Feb. 18. (By the As-soclnted As-soclnted Press.) The attitude of the people toward the Prince of Wales I was indicated cn his arrival here. I Tho prince was given the customary show of welcome, without any attempt at-tempt being made at violence Yet the stands erected to seat the crowds were not nearly filled. A large per- rentage of the people who turned out I 'to grfcf the pnr were children I from government schools and govern-iment-ulded mission schools who were I required to be present. Th" national or native schools gave the'.r quarterly examinations, j for the expressed purpose of preventing prevent-ing the student from greeting the I prince. In the stand where The Associated As-sociated Press correspondent was sta-; sta-; tinned, very few ot the people rose I from their seats or gave any form of 1 deferential greeting as the prince j pussed by. Personal Inquiry showed that In l he bazaar district a strict hartal ; boycott was being observed Practically Prac-tically all the Burmese and Indian shops were closed In silent protest of the prince's visit. Most of the Chinese Chi-nese places remained open. Very fe-v gharries (carriages), except the private pri-vate ones, were seen in the streets. The prim e came here by the ! steamer Dufferin from Calcutta, I where he had been since December 24. While there he re elved the honorary hon-orary degree of doctor of laws from Calcutta university and dedicated tho 1 ' 1 f 1", H . nw.mfl il Ihn rnrnpritniin f l which had been laid by his father. A hartal was observed when the prince arrived In Calcutta. |