The Chinese junk Ningpo has again hidden adieu to Shanghai on the third attempt to cross the Pacific to Los Angeles.
Whether the vessel will reach her destination and assist in the International Exhibition to be held San Francisco in 1915 it is impossible to say. But if she does not break up the promoters are prepared to carry on until the day of the Ex-hil Their determination to achieve their end will be gathered from the fact that already upwards of Tls. 40,000 has been expended on the junk, and the undertaking hes entailed two journeys from America to Shanghai on the part of the promoters' agent.
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