To the Editor of the Nonu-Cumxa Dany News"
SmI should be very obliged if some of your readers, possibly a competent housewife, would be kind as to let me know in what ereentage has the cost of living for foreigners increased in Shanghai since the beginning of the year 1927.
reckon that the items to oe taken Into account are the following: rent, food, clothing, transportation, mediines, doctors fees, "hospitals, light, fuel,' taxes, amenities (magazines, books, sports, clubs, cinemas and tobacco), miscellaneous imported hoods of ordinary use amongst for-
To work out the Agures of which 1 am in need, I give the following. Agures of the average exchange of the Swiss franc against the Chinese dotier; on the first days of the months named:
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