Chungking, July 27.
Shanghai, July 28.
Rent Racket:
An Omission Corrected To the Editor of the Norrx-Cuina Dany NEWS"
Sm—In my letter to you of July 27th re the above, you omitted one line when published in your issue Of to-day. The sentence referred to should read:—
In-reply to your letter of the th he object of our letter of the was to enable us to meet, leases, of leases on an increased rental, and the substitution
joi US currency in leu of silver TENANT.
President Roosevelt, Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State and Mr. James Farley, the Postmaster-General, have each been presented with ten sets of Chinese stamps by Mr. Chang Kia-ngan, the Minister of Communications, through the American Embassy here.
They are tricoloured commemorative stamps issued by the Chinese Government. to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the United States Government.
The stamps are printed in denomina ations of 5, 25 and 50 cents and one dollar. They have a map of China in the centre, bedecked with Chinese and American national flags.
Ten million sets of such stamps have been issued and are on sale throughout China.—Reuter.
Shanghai, July 28.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.