Department are advertising surplus aeroplanes for sale at from 15 to 60 per cent. of their actual cost. These comprise new and secondhand machines complete with engines and instruments, and include "Handley Page, Vimy Bomber (Atlantic record type), De Havil land 4-6-9 and 10, Armstrong Whitworth (160 Beardniore), Sopwith Snipe, Salamander, and Dolphin, E. 5a, Avro.
Tae promoter of a Chinese newspaper in Paris is said to have been faced with the difficulty of a complete lack of Chinese "characters" in the printing establishments. The difficulty was overcome by the method New York journals adopted during the recent strike, with the difference that the Chinese manuscript had to be written instead of typed. Photographs of the script were then taken, and "stereo" plates made from th: photographs.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.