As Ecoxowte Pioxesns: Tue Jourvat Dit, RvOLPH Asatis=—-Published by Georg, Stilke, Berlin. For sale im Shanghai lange Dr. Rudolph Asmi mow German Minister at Bangkok, has recently published the journal of his trip taken in 1922-23 to Moscow, through
Baikal district, through Mongolis European Russian and the West] along the Amur to Nikolaievsk, thence to Japan, China and through Manchuria to Vladivostok, wick through Chita and Moscow to Berlin, thence to Turkestan, to Moscow again and so back to Berlin. After the War it became necessary for Germany to find new markets and the author, as head of the Economics Section of the Foreign Office realized the importance of secitving reliable data og to export opportunities in European Russia, Siberia and the western provinces of China, Although expeditions to secure such information were new to Germany he wag finally commis-joned to set out on such a mission.
The volume under consideration, therefore, is primarily concerned with the commercial aspects of the countries visited and polities play practically no part therein. The Precautions taken against sickness, cold and hunger are minutely d seribed and will prove suggestive to other travellers, although tran: port conditions have improved tremendously since the—author wrote. Dr. Asmis has collected a great amount fof material which can hardly fail to be of value of the merchant and interest to- the traveller. His information minute and so far as an untechnical reader may judge, exact, and his figures and tables form a convenient background with which to compare 1925 conditions. The book has about 100 excellent _photographic reproductions, a large map.
its cover design is an effective A certain Mr. T. A. Apear who been out of Bangkok for ty-six years is announced to be going to Singapore for a three weeks' holiday. Can we equal this in Shanghai
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