Satisfactory progress is being made in the erection of the two additional lines for the Nanking-Shanghai long-distance tele hone service, Wires have been ut up as far as Soochow from Shanghai and as far as Chin-Kiang from Nanking, the entire lines' to. be completed and traffic by New Year's—Kuo Min, d'Extréme Orient of which the archwological services and researchjes have developed to a remarkable acti the professor it comes as something of a shock to hear him talk casually of decad though they were only a few years.
From Penang, disembarking from the Aramis, M.'Pelliot travelled towards Bangkok and afterwards in the direction of Angkor. Next he took the Mandarin route in order to return towards Prom Penh and this rapid jou: note "with" gratification the constant "extension shown by the museums and archaeological centres Tu China he has now reached the main goal of his journey. It i country which he loves, and to which has devoted the whole of life, M. Pelliot comes. to 'China With the' object of strengthening Jeontact between Chinese and French savants. He intends to. observe what has been accomplished on the spot from a scientific point of view, in order to reinforce still further collaboration and ce-operation in the sharing of the common task, Great progress has certainly been Jmade, thanks on the one hand, in Ching, to the excellent labours of the Academia Sinica, and on the other, in Paris, to the creation in the Sorbonne seven years ago of the Institut des: Hautes, Etudes Chin ses, where M, Pelliot, who has ocetpied since 1511 the' Central Asian chair at the College de France, gives twofold instruction, in Chinese art and the sources of Chinese arud tion.
"To-day the task to profit by the experience acquired and the results attained in the course of the last fifteen years, so that they may be adapted. to present circumstances, this giving a fresh impetus to this Franco-Chinese ce-operation in the intellectual and. scientific sphere. The French scholar expects to remain for about a fortnight in Shanghai, before proceeding to Peking, where he will make a stay lof about two months, Duaine the week ending December 3, 41 Chinese and two foreigners died in the French Concession. There was only one death, a Chinese, from a notifiable disease.
Tus Greater Shanghai Municipal Zoo in the Confucian Temple Park, Chinese City, will be thrown open to the public on New Year's Day. The park has been named after the Confucian Temple because it is the temple which has been. converted into the park. hai on a tination for, the Keren author, who was Arial Benson, Zionist Leder
Hayesod in 1924, and again 192%, died in Parison the" 9th ultimo, at the age of 4. Deceased is survived by his widow, who, prior to her" marriage in' 1925, Was editor of the "Canadian Jewish Chronicle," a weekly journal pablished in' Montreal.
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