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tied to the tree tops. Cheering crowds of school children lined the railway and at night time processions of farmers bearing lantems came frœa distant villages and shouted themselves hoarse. For several hundreds of yards outside towns like Gifu, Ügaki, etc., sheds and shanties were erec- ted where parties picnicked out waiting for the troops to pass. Coming back over the same railway line it really seemed as if some extraordinary trasformation had taken place, thus showing that the voice of authority can still make itself heard and obeyed.
To return to the woTKIGOT). Their lot in Japan is not a happy one, but attempts are now continually being made to better it. In a supplementary memorandum have given a few notes relating to my visit to certain cotton mills, showing that a great improvement has taken place with regard to the conditions under which girls are housed. A glance at this memorandum will prove that in the best mills at any rate girls are well looked after and that comparatively speaking they have not much to complain of, except of course the long hours, and their loss of freedom due to the compound system which still holds good and is very rauch disliked, thus making the recruiting of operatives more and more difficult. For this reason Japan is now turning to Corea as a source of labour, and many Corean girls as well as men have been imported. The wages they receive are on tthe same acale as the Japanese although their efficimcy is only about 70% at present, chiefly owing to the difficulty in the language question.
The labour situation is giving the Authorities bed for anxious thought; a Japanese friend of mine, who is a unnu- facturer in Yokohama inforas me that last week all the heads of factories in this district employing over 300 hands were called together at the Prefectural Office and were addressed | ty-Mr. Oka of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce who | pointed out to them the dangers connected with labour wideh
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