a substitute for unobtainable gin will be sought and vodka is indicated, though some timid souls had hoped that the new fuel policy would require it to be placed in the gasolene tank, rather than in the driver. It is on the highest authority that the "mixer" in the best known public bar in Manchoukuo was recently observed thoughtfully contemplating a long line of glasses which apparently contained freshly compounded samples of mar-finis, bronxes, gimlets, pink ladies, fizzes, and cognate concoctions. When a perplexed spectator roused him from his reverie, he murmured "No gin—all made with vodka." Though one can make as many and as harmful drinks with the vodka which one can buy with $1, as can be done with the quantity of gin, which soon cannot be bought for several dollars. no credence is given to the rumour that the Directorate of the Railway will order the-price of cocktails reduced,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.