The Archive · 1938

LONDON CROSS WORD No. 1526

(By Arrangement with the "Daily Telegrgfi said that native upbringing is either literally or traditionally based on the Confucian Canon, but 1 doubt if it advocates full and hearty ex-.pectoration in public. Yet a com mon sight in Chinese restaurants, hotels, eic, is an abundance of spittoons for the customer's convenience. pure intellectual ignorance in they would give me only yen $78.25.

What had become of the parity of the Manchoukuo yuan and Xe Japanese yen, I ask you?

Still having Bank of Chosen yen, I went to the Bank of Chosen here, and asked to exchange them for Japanese ven. The reply was a grinning and derisive refusal. Nor would they give me Shanghai dollars for the Own issue of currency—but they said of China's aged civilization of which they would give me a draft on Japan. One foreign writer said: when it seems to me that an appropriate the inhabitants of the Middle King- S/£nature to this letter would be—dom held learning in high esteem.

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