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Show The war in the east may interferv with tho holding of the 60 colled Chi. nese world's fair which has been announced an-nounced to take place this year. It is not a world's fair in the ordinary eensa of the word, rfnce all exhibits are to b furnished by China itself, but if half the reports sent out are true it has been planned to exceed all other fairs by whatever name called. The expense ia estimated at 200,000,000, and it is an-nounced an-nounced in honor of the sixty-first anai. versary of the birth of the empress dot"-ager. dot"-ager. Apart from the main exhibition at Peking, thero are to be celebrations Jn every town of the empire. It seems to be rather a national festival than a display of arts, manufacturers and agrf. culture, though this part of the "fair" is planned on an enormous soala. ' |