It is true that in some cases the restaurants and cafes have altered their prices from Harbin dollars to the new Manchoakuo currency with slight differences in their favour, this not being done at speculation but simply because the exact figure in Jexchange would result in decimal points and therefore the prices are ut at the next round figure.
Harbin for years has been accustomed to have all prices marked in multiples of five anc ten cents and therefore goods marked in prices between these multiples seem to be absurd. Thus the tram fares were Jatways charged in_ multiples of five cents, whereas in Tientsin, Shanghai and Peking, they are charged in copper coinage which formerly could not be done in Harbin as there was, such coinage. Now that the Manchoukuo Government has coined a Yarge quantity of one and half cent. copper coins it is possible to pay. in smaller units than that of five cents and thus the tram fare which was formerly five cents has now be-leone four cents.
Tue Panchan Lama, "Living Buddha of Tibet", is leaving Nanking for Peking shortly on his way to Chigghai. "His secretary, the Anching Lama, will proceed to Lhasa to make preliminary preparations for the return of the Panchan Lama to Tibet,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.