A further interesting stage in the progress of education in the ¥rench Concession was reached on Wednesday with the inauguration of the handsome new buildings of the Ecole (Municipale Franco-Chinoise. This school, the foundation stone of which was Jaid by Sarshal Joffre in March, 1922, occupies an extensive site in Boulevard de Montigny, and has been designed by Messrs Boissezon and Nabias, of the French Public—Works department. Accommodation has now been provided for 1,000 pupils (400 were provided for in the old school), and those will be educated on the lines of a Secondary School under ithe direction of Mariste Brothers, as at St. Francis Xavier's with Brother Stanislas as Chief Director. At present there are
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