Nanking, Aug. 11
To stop manipulation of food prices during the present crisis, provisions will be made in a set of special laws which afe being drafted by members of the Economic and Military subcommittees of the Legislative Yuan.—
Central News, Rome, Aug. #1.
A new era in the Mediterranean is hinted in Italian press comment on the manceuvres beginning tomorrow in Sicily in the presence of Signor Muss i.
Styled "the imperial island" by some papers, Sicily is called "an i visible bridge between Italy and Africa" by the Giornale d'Italia.
The "Gazzetta del Popolo says "We are taking the lead on the shores of the Mediterranean, because we have Spain' behind us, being born anew through a baptism of blood, Egypt, who wants independence, and the whole Atabic world, where new life is stirring."—Havas.
The next Council of the French Cabinet which had originally been convened for August 15 has been postponed till August 2 or 25 to permit adequate preparation of an extremely important step on the future of the French railways.
M. Move Rucart, Health Minister ud M, Pierre Cot, Air Minister, both left France by air yesterday. Ru art took off from Lo Bourget for que while M, Cot left for Oslo,
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