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Show Manila News Sheets Are Many and Varied Maniln's newest newspaper is the Tribune, a morning sheet, published In English by Filipinos and under Van-guardla-Tallba ownership. This gives Manila three morning papers In English Eng-lish and one in Spanish and Tagalog. As many more come out in the afternoon, after-noon, while dialect and Spanisli weeklies week-lies flood the streets and news stalls Fridays and Saturdays. In addition, monthly publications are appearing. The government gets out three monthlies, month-lies, one at the bureau of posts, one at the bureau of lands and one at the bureau of commerce and industry. With Interlsland boat service antiquated anti-quated and Irregular and with illiteracy illiter-acy around 65 per cent, circulations are naturally small. Even La Van-guardia, Van-guardia, Taliba and the Tribune boast only a combined circulation of about 85,000. The Tribune started an innovation inno-vation by selling at 2 cents a copy. Its American competitors sell at 5 cents. |