''La Vérité'' ('The Truth') was a

French language French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...

radical socialist weekly newspaper published from

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

. It was founded in 1931 by P. Destrées (a French lawyer, who had arrived in China from Paris a short time before the launching).
Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier
'. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 569
The China Weekly Review
', Vol. 58. Millard Publishing House, 1931. pp. 276, 465 ''La Vérité'' immediately stirred up a lot of controversy in the

Shanghai French Concession The Shanghai French Concession; ; Shanghainese pronunciation: ''Zånhae Fah Tsuka'', group=lower-alpha was a foreign concession in Shanghai, China from 1849 until 1943, which progressively expanded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Th ...

, as it continuously attacked the French Chief of Police, Captain Fiori, and other public officials for inaction in curbing gambling in the area.Wakeman, Frederic E.
Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937
'. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. p. 393 The contemporary ''China Weekly Review'' labelled the publication 'spicy'.

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