Show I 1400 Years' Years Public Publication tion I Clai Claimed ec fo for Peking Paper LONDON Dec 3 United Press i iThe The The oldest newspaper in the word nord nordIs i is claimed to be the Peking News a daily dally published In Peking contin cuntin- continually contIn 1 ball for tor the past 1400 years The earliest newspaper in Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- Eui i rope is stated to have hav appeared in inthe inthe the time of the Romans and was I kno known n as the Act Daily Events and consisted of ot short an announcements announcements an- an of Jf an official cl character charac charac- ter tel concerning battles games garne anc and fires It was compiled d b by officials appointed for or the purpose Later th the Italians produced their theil the tile real real- forerunner of the present present- day ne newspaper These derived their theW title from a small coin pe peculiar ulIar to tho the Cit City of or Venice known as a a. Gazetta and arid this was the common price of i a Venetian newspaper |