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Show CHINA SENDING TROOPSTOFRANCE AN ATLANTIC PORT, April 29 ! I Captain Ting Chia Chen, military j counselor to the president of China, and also to the Chinese minister of war, arrived here today on a French steamship, ye said that China is now I sending troops to France to fight for ! the allies Captain Ting, who is a graduate of , the United States military academy at. I West Point, for some time has been I in Europe as a military observer in the war theatre for his government. "China is preparing to do her part In making the world safe for democracy," democ-racy," he said tonight. "It ie true that China has troops now on the way I to the battle froit, and it is the calculation calcu-lation of the Pekin government, to have no fewer than 40.000 fighting men with tho French by early summer 1 bave just left France, and there remained re-mained behind ten other Chinese officers offi-cers whose duty if will be to select training camps in France for Chinese t roops." The captain added that there is a spirit among the Chinese people thai Prussianism must be suppressed for the good of mankind and the advance of civilization. |