To the Editor of the "Nonru-CuiNa Dairy News."
Sim,—Notwithstanding the news, expostulations, prognostics, con siderations, ete, filling to-day's columns with ' "occupation" Shantung, with all due respect and werenee' for this old country I ko the liberty humbly to express; scepticism about the whole atter" of this "war'
First, the pleasant trip of General Chiang Kai-shek for vacation does not point to an pending "war" of any importance worthy of the name.
Secondly, the thermometer or} barometer of the Chinese situation for long time, namely the Money Market column of the press, is stationary at 71.80 taels for $100, a thing that I feel more than I can and has been stationary at that po too long to be pleasant, as a watter of fact.
I must add that my pay is reckoned in dollars while my-bills are in taels. As you probably have known for the last years every warlike commotion in this
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