GENERAL NEWS.
Lleat. General Aoki.
It is reliably reported, says the N.C.Daily News, that Lieut-Gen Aoki is on his way to Shanghai to be attached in a military capacity to the Japantse Con- sulate. He was formerly Military Attsche at Peking and has been occupying the position of Com- mandant of Port Arthur Fortress,
Japanese in South Chian
An interesting sidelight on Japanese activity in South Chins is contained in the following par- graph from the N. G. Daily News. correspondent in Kusiyang, who writes: A printing press here owned by about the wealthiest man in Kasiyang has been doing good work for some years. Machinery for manufacturing paper is being brought from Japan, the cost of which, the manager_talls me, in $180,000 and two Japanese hava strived to attend to the setting of it up.
Investigating Malaria in
Australia.
Melbourne, Bec. 21-4 con- ference, to be held in Sydney next month to discuss the whole question of malaria as it affects troops in Egypt and the tropics, ----methods of treatment and the
will disposal of cases,
be attended by Professor Welth.
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