To the Editor of the Natu-Cuixa Datty News."
Sin,—I have it from very reliable sources that boarding houses and hotels at Tsingtao are asking.more than double their rates this year compared. with last, Even allowing for the depression of silver, which is down say 80 per ent do they consider this enormous. increase. justified or wise? Surely in these bad times half a loaf is Better than none at all, and many would-be visitors. to the Northern port, quite agreeable to reasonable increases after taking. everything into consideration would prefer to stay and stew in Shanghai to being. plucked white by the profiteers of
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