The Archive · 1935

Essentials for the Trip

Experience has taught us that cards with name and address in Chinese as well as passports properly vised and car and driver's licences are essen-al, It is wise to carry your own brand of all and to take a five gal-Jon tin of gasoline for emergency. Gas can be bought at all the important bus stations, the price being about 40 cents a gallon higher than in Shanghai. Two. spare tires are advisable for a long trip, especially the car does not have puncture: proof tubes. The Chekiang Tourist Bureau recently published a set of ttractive folders" in English which give pictures and facts about places of interest in Chekiang. We bought for 20 cents from. their agency. Hangchow a reliable road map which }we found indispensable. Very helpful were the fogs in Viola Smith's "Motor Touring in China" and those in certain issues of the Automobile Club bulletin, "China Highways." Tt would be difficult for a person who Jcannot read signs and ask questions 'Chinese to make an extended trip. If he were fortified with a map having Chinese characters that would help. Usually there is at least Jone person who can read in' the lerowd that gathers.

If you are hungering for beauty in the out-of-doors, our advice is, "Go find the Mountains of China." Along with the hills you will discover the bamboo groves, the waterfalls, the temples, the terraced valleys, and the blue distance—Photographs on p. 257. ihe bennning Before it at the end. "in conjunction with Sun on, the 27th.

Sets on Ist at 621" pin. on 10th at Sagittarius the end of the month. In quadrature withthe Sun onthe 2th.

Uranus, moving In Aries, is, visible the where night. It begins to set In the middle of the month before dawn, Sets on st at 000 ami on 1th at 503 am.

Neptune rises on Ist at 210 am, on 16th at 122 am.

Metorle showers which may be seen uring November.

Pertelds RA.I* D.434° Nov.

1-10. Faurid Ya Nov. 1-35. Eeonige gg, hah; Nov. rin

Andromedids 28° axe Nov. 13s [Greate na} 188° 430° Nov. 25—Dee. 4

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