The British Empire's oldest daily newspaper has passed on by merger with the "Daily Telegraph, as it was feared would happen when it was announced in August that Lord Camrose had bought the "Morning Post" The name is to be kept alive apparently just as the News-Chronicle's" name recalls the separate identity of two great Liberal popular newspapers. Thus a career which began on November 2, 1772 has ended on September 90, 1957. "Two years sd the "Morning Post" lost Lord Apsley, whose resignation terminated a family association with State on the morning of the 30th:—High and falling pressure over Japan: normal and rising over China and Korea: small low centre crossing north Kiangsu east-north-eastward. Northeasterly to south-easterly winds along the Coast. Showery in Kiangsu: cloudy and fine weather elsewhere in China, State on the morning of the Ist:—Cloudy and fine weather. West-north-westerly' sains 20g and rising press Probabilities, 430 pin. yesterday:—Cloydy, fine and cool' weather With north-westerly to northerly winds around Shantung, in the mean and the lower Yangtze Valley: misty to ly s ern Sea and Formosa.—Siccawei Observatory.
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