March 25th, 1922]
THE PRINCE'S VISIT TO
The
JAPAN.
OFFICIAL PROGRAMME
ANNOUNCED.
programule
for the Prince of Wales's stay in Japan has been officially published.
On the morning of April 12th, His Royal Highness will arrive at Yokohama and immediately enter the capital of Japan, proceeding to the Imperial Palace and then to the detached palace at Akasaka, where he will stay until April 18th.
In the meantime, His Royal Highness is expected to attend a dinner-party to be given at the Imperial Palace, dinner- parties by Prince Higashi Fushimi, the British Ambassador, Premier Takahashi, Count Uchida, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Tokugawa, Marquis Nabeshima, as well as the Military Re- view, the Imperial Cherry Party and the reception by the City of Tokio.
On April 14th, however, His Royal Highness will have a rest, the day being Good Friday.
On April 19th, the Prince will pay a visit to Nikko, returning to Tokyo on April 21st, and on April 22nd proceed to Yokohama, where he will attend the ceremony of unveiling a monument in honour of those who laid down their lives in the Great War, and after doing the sights in and around Kamakura and Yenoshima, will attend the reception to be given on board a Japanese warship in the harbour of Yokohama and then at- tend a ball by British people resident in Yokohama where he will stay overnight. On April 23rd, His Royal Highness will pay a visit to Odawara to attend a dinner-party at the country villa of Prince Kanin, passing the night at the detached house of Baron Iwasaki at Yumoto, Hakone.
On April 25th, he attends a dinner- party at the detached palace and on April 26th after doing the sights of Lakes Kawaguchi, Seiko, and Shojin at the base of Mt. Fuji, puts up at the Shojin Hotel.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT
RECEPTION COMMITTEE.
The full names of the Reception Committee in connection with the Prince of Waless visit to Japan are announced as follows :
H.I.. Prince Torihito Higashi Fu- shimi, who is well-known in Great Bri- tain, having been there on two official visits (once when he represented the Im- perial Japanese Court at the Coronation, and again when he was sent on a special mission to present the sword of a Marshal in the Japanese army to His Majesty the King).
H.F. Count Sutemi Chinda, a former Ambassador in London, and more lately known to the British people as a member of the suite of H.I.H. the Prince Regent. Count Chinda is now one of the chief advisers to the Regent, having been appointed to this post last November.
Viscount Yoshitami Matsudaira, a Master of Ceremonies, who has spent many years in London, and who accom- panied Prince Higashi Fushimi in 1918. Marquis Tsuneyasu Nakamikado, a Master of Ceremonies, who has only recently returned from a tour through Europe and America.
Major-General Toyohiko Yoshida, who was with Prince Higashi Fushimi at the time of the Coronation, and is now attached to the Imperial Household.
Rear-Admiral Katsunoshin Yamanashi, who was closely associated with the British Navy during the war.
Mr. Nobumichi Sakenobu, of the Foreign Office, who served in London as Councilor.
Mr. Setsuzo Sawad a, also of Foreign Office.
Lieutenant-Col. Masauosuke Tsunoda. Commander Kai and Kurokawa, I.J.N. Reuter's Pacific Service.
THE M.C.L. BAZAAR.
DONATIONS ACKNOWLEDGED.
We have received from Lady Stubbs
copies of the letters of acknowledgment which Mrs. Young, the Hon. Secretary, has received from the Societies and In- stitutions in Great Britain to whom donations were forwarded out of the pro- ceeds of the last M.C.L. Bazaar. These include the following:-
Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of
Weir.
The Royal Soldiers' Daughters' Home,
Hampstead.
Captain Fryatt Memorial Fund, Liver
pool.
London, Hospital, Whitechapel. Officers' Families Fund.
Trafalgar Orphan Fund.
inquiries are being made.
Most of these donations were of £166 138. 4d. each.
27
300
League, no less than £1,254 59. ed., having been subscribed for the Children's section
of the Capt. Fryatt Fund.
BRIGHTENING
FREE MIDNIGHT
KOWLOON.
CHAMBER"
CONCERT.
A correspondent, who supplies his own headings, as above, writes on March 19th:
We shall doubtless hear at the annual
meeting of the Kowloon Residents' As concert, to which residents in Humphreys' sociation, next Wednesday, whether the Buildings and houses in the vicinity were entertained on Saturday night, was part of a K.R.A. scheme for brightening Kow- loon. The affair might fitting y be des cribed as a chamber concert seeing that most of the members of the audience had retired to their bed chambers before the concert began.
The second part of the programme, em- barked upon just after midnight, consist- ed of
33 concerted numbers in which a glee party joined in popular choruses; the piano, apparently, being operated by the feet instead of in the usual manner.
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"God Save the King was sung twenty minutes to one, though the prayer seemed unnecessary in view of the fact, just made public, that Royalty will not The audience be visiting Kowloon. vent cheers, but felt inclined to sub- received Carey's ode with loyal and fer- stitute their own names for "the King" in the first and last line, when a grama- phone and the pedestrian pianist con- tinued the concert. The glee party tried. with all the power of their lungs, till after 1 a.m., to drown the thunderous strains of the piano but without success. The final item was "We won't go home till morning "which, at that hour, was to state the obvious.
The brute creation, now thoroughly roused to emulation, took up the theme from every kennel and poultry yard in the vicinity.
Revellers from the ex-service men's dinner then began to find their way homewards and, altogether, it seemed that a "Kowloon Saturday night" called for a poet to immortalise it in deathless vorse.
KIAOCHOU'S COST TO CHINA.
A JAPANESE ESTIMATE.
In an article dealing with the return of Kiaochou to China the Manchuria Daily News says:
It will be of interest to learn what Japan has laid out in Shantung.
some
Germany is said to have invested 59,000,000 marks or about Y.28,000,000 in Shantung. Of this amount, between Y.5,000,000 and Y.6,000,000 was laid out No recepts have come to hand from the in mining enterprises, leaving Evelina and Ottershaw Hospitals and Y.23.000,000 net for the construction of When Japan the Shantung Railway. took possession of the railway, the locomo tives numbered only 40, which number has been raised to 102, whilst the passen. ger cars have been just doubled-to 160.
the workshops, the laying of sidings, etc., Goods cars, too, have been increased in number. Adding to this the extension of the total investmests will come to more than double the Y 28,000,000. Besides. the water-works, electricity works, s'augh ter houses, etc.. have cost the Japanese between Y-50.000.000 and Y.60.000,000. Furthermore. the salt fields comprise about 72,000,000 tsubo, which have already absorbed some Y.30,000,000. The salt in- dustry is a private business, and the money invested therein has been borrowed from the banks.
On April 27th, the Prince will visit Kyoto, paying his respects to the Imperial Mausoleum at Momoya. On April 28th, he will go boating on Lake Biwa, making a stay in Kyoto until May 2nd. On May 3rd and 4th he will visit Nara, and on May 5th will attend the reception to be given by the City of Osaka as well as the ball by foreigners resident in Kobe where His Royal High-Lord Knutsford, the Chairman wrote:- In the case of the London Hospital, ness stays overnight.
On May 6th he will journey to Takamatsu of this gift to the children's ward, to "I should so very much like, as a record City, Shikoku, to attend the dinner-nominate some member of the League as party and reception by Count Matsudaira. an honorary Life Governor of the Charity. On May 7th. he will see the sights of No responsibility attaches, and it is the Itsukushima Island, one of the Three nearest approach to an 'Order of Merit' Great Sights in Japan and on May 8th, that the Hospital possesses. Will you let he will visit the Naval College at me have a name so that I can put it for Yedajima and the Arsenal at Kure, ward in proper form?" when he will travel down to Kagoshima, Extract from Times: A gift of £167 at the south end of Kyushu, where His 8s. 3d. for the Capt. Fryatt Memorial Royal Highness is at attend the Fund has been received by the Imperial dinner party and reception by Prince Merchant Service Guild from the Hong Shimidzu on May 9th, after which His kong Women Guild and Ministering Royal Highness sails for home.-Eastern | Children League. This is the fourth News Agency.
donation received from the Hongkong
China will probably redeem the Shan- tung Railway, etc., in treasury bills amounting to about Y.100,000,000.
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