Peiping, July 30.
The Peiping Municipal Government lizs just appointed a commission to compile an official history of Peiping.
Mr. Wu Cheng-chih, Chief Secretary of the Municipality, has been made concurrently Chairman of the Commission with Mr. Wu Ting-hsi as Deputy Chairman and four members of the Ku Hsueh Yuan, Messrs. Hsia Jen-hu, Chu Peng-shou, Chu Hsuan-ying and Peng I-chi, as special com-Pilers.
The idea of compiling an ofücial history of the city originated with Mr. Wu Ting-hsi who in a petition to the Mayor, General Vu Chih-ho, urged that the scheme be adopted and sponsored by the Municipality.
In announcing the appointment of the Commission General Vu stated that the term of the commission would be tentatively fixed at ten months Owing to financial string gency the municipality could not appropriate more than $10,000 for this Purpose, that is, $1000 for each nth.
Under the Manchu dynasty every district in China had its history recorded in a book known as Hsien Chih. When Mr. Chow Chia-mei was Taoyin of Shuntienfu, which included Peiping, he had the official history of Peiping revised and brought up to date. Since then, no attempt has been made to revise this history owing to the lack of funds as well as to the preoccupation of the authorities with other work—Reuter
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