Increasod cost of living is held responsible for a docline in tho number of students attending tho, universities of France. In Paris tho number fell from 18,000 in 1913 to 11,214 last year. The city walls of a Chinese town, Yoncharig, are lighted up every night by great flares of oil to keep off robbers. This lomote city of Shensi is in the midst of an oil-bearing region too inaccessible to be developed.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 151, 23 December 1921, Page 15
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