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Show Manila News Sheets Are Many and Varied Manila's newest newspaper is the Tribune, a morning sheet, published in English by Filipinos and under Yan-guardia-Tiba 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 Spanish 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 Go per cent, circulations are naturally small. Even La Yan-guardia, Yan-guardia, Taliba and the Tribune boast only a combined circulation of about 35.000. The Tribune started an innovation inno-vation by selling at 2 cents a copy. Its American competitors sell at 5 cents. |