Paris, April 18, 'A Chinese Institute, founded at the Sorbonne at the suggestion of the President of the Chinese Re-Public, has just been opened with great ceremony in the presence of the Minister of Public Instruction and other dignitaries. The two Governments are providing the funds, and the Chinese Government has undertaken to present the Institute with a library of 100,000 manuscripts. When they arrive, the new foundation should take its place as an important Western entre of sinological studies. For the present, however, it will not be much more than a meeting-place of students and others interested in the Far East, One of the distinguished Frenchmen present at the opening was Mf. Paul Painlevé, who was Prime Minister for two months in 1917, and is still a deputy. It is an: nounced that M. Painlevé is leaving for China, via New York and San Francisco, on May 11, at the invita. tion of the Chinese Government, with the object of investigating the development of intellectual relations between France and China. Whi'e in that country he will ba the guest of the Chinese Government.
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