Tt costs $100 (Mex.) for a return ticket to Hankow by a first-class river steamer, which includes leals, ete, and free transport of Dagage to any reasonable extent, for a period of eight or nine days. By air the trip is made between stinrise-and sunset, but costs $200] (Mex.) return. Tt became 23 cheap last month to travel across United States by air as by!
when Transcontinental Transport cut "its fare to U. $150.92, the best railroad transportation costing U. S. $161.40. On 2 Mexican dollar basis it costs, therefore, $300 return Shanghai Hankow, and $470 one way across the States. These figures, which have been handed to us as an item of interest, are not intended as an adverse criticism of China Airway rates, but rather as an instance of comparative costs in America, the world's dearest country, and China, its cheapest.
The Reichstag and the Reporter Parliaments are believed in some quarters to have outlived their may be for the benefit -of man, Parliaments certainly provide entertainment from time to time. The Fiench Chamber of Deputies has just enabled the Chautemps Cabinet to establish a record for which they certainly were not striving—="the shortest ived one of the 'Third Republic." 'Also it has afforded an opportuni to the punster, who has lost all to take liberties with M. Chautemps' name, and to say that he and his colleagues were in for a "hot time." Quite recently a reporter of the "Deutsche Zeitung" made himself notorious by hiding beneath a table in the Reichstag, and thus obtaining. for his paper an almost verbatim report of proceedings that it was desired to keep secret. Into the question of the morality of this reporter's action it is not proposed to enter, but he has made it. possible, altered in the localities that ave ths correspondent of the "Daily. breeding places of war. 1A speci
has been paying a visit to ti Balkans, This is an extract from one of his despatches: conscript army ba mes "Toe ig fan attempt is avy. The basis of arity with Turkes, and. for every construct stroyer or submarine "that Turkey builds the Greek "Goversment "builds ey, more often, buys it from.
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