Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-04 | Page 23 | Old Encyclopedia Goes to Mukden

ld Encyclopedia ino rC 0 e la I I Goes oes to Mukden to u eul I PEEING rr Oct 3 United Pre Press Press Press- s-I s derv motor trucks have hl been beene I jo e ing priceless ancient volumes o i ec al railroad Car Cai al here as s le he last las chapter of ot a It process of or rp- rp re reins l ring ins to authorities eat at at Mukden T a set of ot books striking e into the culture of China his set ia is known as the Ssu Chun hun Shu or 01 the Chinese ent en- en t- t Only four such sets i Ir e a made Each set consists of li- li covers of Chinese style each ench r containing six to eight sepa- sepa volumes so that the whole en- en Ie CopE dia consists of ot about The subjects dealt with r the classics history prose an anE and andry try rY ry and these subjects areo are E revered o erect as fully as Information I i t wt t up to the time of ot th the EmIle Empe Em- Em pe Ile Or Chien hien Lung 1799 1735 A A. A D. D rv ordered compilation of ot the therk rk rk ne of the four tour sets was destined fo foe o one for the old cap cap- 1 of ot one for Peking and ne for province of ot which i is the capital The Mule Muk- Muk e set had strayed as is the way wayt t valuable things in disordered na but after prolonged negotiation tion io it was decided to o assemble the ks inventory them and send l E Jn n home once more Th They will a. a carefully housed In the Wen Ven i leh library at Mukden by order Sf of the Mukden Warlord Feng Ii y lome ome idea of the scope of the thes theIS themay s IS may be gleaned by the fact th h t when a Shanghai firm negotiated d ted ed last year with a view to 10 toying crying ring ying the encyclopedia it was found found the work worl would require ten teny y irs and cost several million dolls dol dol- ls lars s s.