The Archive · 1938

French Eject Chinese Police from College

Tientsin, June 16, A company of French troops, under the personal "command of, Colonel Jecomy, commanding the French forees in China, were summoned to the French Jest College here yester= day to eject a party of Chinese police were attempting {0 search the The Chinese police entered the Jesuit, College to enquire into its activities, Lepissier, French Consul-General" in Tientsin, "Immediately summoned the French troops, and {heir arrival "the" Chinese police MIN, Lepissior declared that_"Any future attempt to prejudice "French prestige or interests! will be similarly resisted."—Reuter, Huge Chinese Dictionary Completed ing. June 14, A comprehensive Chinese diction" ary, claimed to contain. all" the Gifferent usages of words and phrases fas well as their combinations found the Chinese language through its ong history, has recently been com= pleted by Mr, Fu Ting-yi, a native of Hunan, after thirty years of interrupted labour, " This coloss work is composed of 85" volumes, etch having about 100 pages, and contains no Hess than 4,500,000 words,

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