The "Travellers Gazette," published quarterly by Messrs, Thomas Cook & Son, in the latest edition contains the usual amount of useful information for those intending to travel or to make the, at present, precarious adventure of Home leave. The volume is filled with the sort of information that the traveller desires—fares, sailings, routes, etc, that enable anyone to plan out his itinerary long ahead. Unfortunately, as a warning note in the volume points out, the uncertain situation in the Far East makes it advisable for travellers to consult the nearest office of the company before definitely fixing their plans. So far as Shanghai is concerned, the situation seems to have been stabilized, and the prospect of warfare in this immediate neighbourhood is remote. The same does not apply to every port or town included in the trips outlined as possibilities in the magazine, and therefore a close attention to the advice of the company issuing it, is necessary to prevent disappointment. There is also a chance that passenger fares to and from the Far East may be revised to the de" triment of the traveller's purse. before He makes up his mind, and therefore the possibility of rises and falls in rates of exchange also obtrudes itself into the schemes to be made for a happy holiday seeing the world, Owing to the change in the status of Austria during the last few weeks, it may be wise for those intending to pass through to the Eucharist Congress to be held in Bucharest between May 23 and 29, to inquire at offices in touch with Austria whet revisions of visa regulations are to be enforced and whether the promises of the former Austrian government that Congress Cards are sufficient to enable a visitor to stop over in that country still hold good. The "Travellers Gazette" gives the up-to-date information on these and other subjects, and warns that it cannot, in view of the rapid changes in the world situation, give absolutely the latest information,
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