'An évertigment on the frost poe one ounces' increase inthe engel avbeclption {othe "North-China "Dally""News", becoming fitective from January 1, 1949. About ten years nye, when exchange was la the neighbourhood f"2/= tothe dollar, the annual subscription waa reduced from si to S21 per annum and nas remained atthe figure ever since, tu 1039 ne subscription, wil revert to 828" ber annum, Irhis chane has een made necesenry Hy" the immensely increased cost of producing a. nove. Paper during the past year, By for the greater Part ct expenditure' ie th golds" paper ink, machinery and cubic news services are"all gold Basle, Income on dhe other hand Simeat entirely in local currency, 'The tnerease is"treretore, & moderate one aad by no means compensates' for the loss on "exchange. "The charge of ten cenis, per copy for newspapers purchased inthe streets and of stores remdiaa same on weekdays, bat on Sundays the charge will be twenty' cents, Subscriptions run for thee. months oF any. longer period and fee ure early delivery of the paper to the site striper's home direct from the publishing ofo. Buying the paper in the stratis or at bodle-ores costs in the aggregate $4140 per annum against $08 per num Ie subscribed for aireer tothe. "Norih-China Dally: News" ofo. Detivery is made carly every morning irom Fungise in the west t9 the Point in. the east and in she. of tne hostilities there' are' com paratively few places in. the interior of China frere the paper Goes not ud it way with air regularity.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.