M. Painleve on His Mission Paris, Oct. 28.
M. Paul Painlevé, a former French Premier, arrived at Marseilles this morning on his return from a mission to China on behalf of the French Government for the purpose of drawing up schemes for the reform of higher education and the reorganization of the Chinese Universities and also for the_ reorganization of the Chinese railway regime. M. Painlevé states that he is very satisfied with the results of the voyage. The Chinese Government has agreed to provide an annual subsidy of £4,000 for the Institute des Hautes Etudes Chinoises in Paris, and has also consented to furnish a sum of £20,000 a year for the creation of a branch of the University of Paris in one of the Chin ese Universities on the condition that the French Government sun-viles 2 similar subvention. The President of the Chinese Republic has promised to reproduce an edition of the four great Chinese classics, which comprise no fewer than five million pages, and to present three copies to France.
M. Painlevé reports that he finds with regret that in general British and Americans have been beforehand with France in China as regards the extension of their influence. The Franco-Chinese School at Shanghai, which was formerly a German institution, has been closed since 1917, but the Germans have already opened ancther school the very gates of Shanghai. The future of China, he states, depends upon its scientific education and its utilization of modern niethods and modern plant.
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