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have some 160 with 4,500 pupils (these schools are chiefly in small
towns with native teachers). The American missionaries
are working in Persia on the same lines as in Turkey and else
where. Their best schools are in Tehran, Hamadan, Kirmanshah,
Tabriz and Meshed. They are open to all comers. The Ame
ricans are now urging the establishment of a college at Tehran at
Tabriz. Great Britain has eight or nine schools with some 800
pupils: the principal centres are Isfahan, Yazd and Kirman, while
funds are being collected for a college at Isfahan. The schools
are almost restricted to Persians owing to the more pronounced
religious fanaticism in the sphere of work of the English mission
aries but a few Parsi and Armenian pupils are to be found in them.
France has five or six schools with 800 pupils. There arc excel
lent French schools under the Lazarist Fathers at Isfahan,
Tehran, and Hamadan and Irench-Jewish schools (Alliance
Israelite) in Isfahan, Tehran, Hamadan, and Kirmanshah.
The Armenians have three or four schools with some 4,000
pupils. The Parsis have schools in Yazd and Tehran, maintain
ed chiefly by their co-religionists in India. The Germans have
one school with 260 pupils. This school, opened in Tehran in
1907, is subsidized by the Persian Government to the extent of
£2,400 per annum. The German Government is supposed
to contribute £1,000 per annum to its upkeep, but it has been
stated that this obligation has never been fulfilled.
Tehran schools .—The number of schools in the capital for boys
is 78 and for girls 42 with 8,344 and 2187 pupils respectively. These
figures include Armenian, Parsi, Jewish, Musulmanand foreign
schools. These latter are (1) Alliance Israelite with some 250
boys and girls; (2) London Society for promoting the Gospel
among the Jews, some 200 boys and girls ; (3) Alliance Frangaise
200 boys ; (4) St Louis (Catholic) 350 boys ; (5) the German
schools 260 boys j (6) American High School for boys, 420 ;
(7) American High School for girls; 300, half of whom are
Armenians; (8) a Russian school of 100 boys.
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In August 1912, the Persian Government having failed
to obtain the services of Police instructors from the Dutch
Government succeeded in securing from Sweden a Chief Instruc
tor, who has been followed by five assistants of the same nationa
lity, as the service developed. The force in the capital consists
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Police.