Few of the Parisians and visitors who sit outside cafes for refreshment escape the attentions of the hawkers who want to sell them thousands of marks for a few sous. It does not scund a paying proposition, and as a matter fact it is, ot. This does not mean that the coppers are not worth more than the thousands, but that there are too many sellers and not enough buyers. According to one of the former, who has poured Ins sorrows into the sympathetic ear of a writer in the Figaro, you may sell thousands of million marks a day without being able make a living out of it. This financial business is not to be compared with selling bootlaces or pencils or newspapers or other things that people really want. It is nothing more than a sideline. Some news vendors offer a 20.000-mark note as a bonus to anyone who purchases a paper for three sous. "The other day" said the hawker bitterly "a man asked me if my notes were genuine. Did he think I should be able to sell them so cheap if they were not A ssRi0Us fire occurred in the south city of Nanking on Friday night and resulted in the destruction of a huge silk store, tha largest of its kind in Nanking. The damage is estimated at many thousands of dollars, most off which, however, has been covered by insurance.
Hirserto, ordinary mails only have Seen carried between Japan and the South Sea Islands under Japan's mandate rule, states the "Manchuria Daily News." The South Seas Government has just notified the Kuantung Government. that hereafter value-declared-mails and postal parcels, in addition to telegrams, have been made transmissible to and from the South Seas, the islands, on which the delivery services of mails and telegrams are maintained, comprising Saipan, Yap, Palau, Angaur, Truck, Ponape, and Jaluit,
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