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More than 15 years ago a lady viditing Chinese family in the City of Hill asked one of the women of the Bousehold what her husband did and was told that his desire was not to make money but to help other people. A cars bird surely That husband was Chas Anang-ming

JAPANESE IMMIGRATION. RESTRICTIONS IN ARGENTINA

In pre-war times the Japanese emigrants to South America numbered as many sa grial boom during and oven after the war, 1,500 to 2,000 on each steamer. The indus however, Teosened the number of these emigrants so that at the end of last year the South American steamers were carry- ing only 150 to 200 emigrants. A matter of fact, no emigrants could be obtained by the recent call of the Ceaks

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and those who have watched his career Sheean Kaisha, though it was made rather Shanghai Office:

most closely during these years will have on a larger scale. The Canada Maru of no reason to believe that his wife at the 0.9.K. took only one ralitary emi mate was wrong As a young man be gran, from Kobe to South America when went to the Law School in Canton and she left on February 1st. Now it has distinguished himself in the final exami began to be anticipated that the Japanese nation by being second for the two shipping agencies may give up any fur Kwang provinces During his student ther transportation of South American day, the new ideas of the Revolutionary emigrante While giving due weight to -party got hold of him dad from then till the industrial factor, it may still be now he has been a preacher of progress. found, on thorough examination, that the In the days before the Revolution of 1931 main cause of this decrease in the recent was Secretary of the Canton Belf revision of the Japanese immigrant overnment Society, a Society which regulations by the Argentine Government come into existence presumably to advice Formerly anybody not obviously s pauper the Viceroy, but really to propagate ideas was allowed in, but now the regulations of popular Government and to prepars

regarding proper certificates are applied for the overthrow of the monarchy. When

much more strictly. that overthrow came, the student became a soldier, and took the field as a leader in the People's Army." Then he became Gov ernor of Kwangtung province, and, busy as he was in those troubles days, the door been announced that Japanese women of his yaman was always open, in other immigrants into América as

ture-bride system much has been said A With regard to the defects of the pis speaker at the Kobe Women's meeting recently attributed Californian" "anti- Japoniam to the system. It has already

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brides will be allowed to go no more after March that is, thair application for emigration of this sort must have been completed by February 25th.

EX-ENEMY. SUBJECTS NOT TO BE ALLOWED TO BID.

than the official sense, and the Governor was ready to see all who wished to inter view him. Many a Hoifung man drank bis tea and wasted his time, but with these Hok-lo specking men who had worked

An investigation made by the Japanese with him in the cause of the Republic berefectural police authorities shows that was glad to share his honours and to dis-

there were during last year 495 gempor, pense to them his hospitality. During of picture-brides out of a total number and permanent emigrations to America the Counter-Revolution of 1913 he lost his of 3,238 emigrants, showing a percentage office and at the beginning the Great War of 15. The prefectures whence most pio- be was in England, but Chins called him as Hiroshima, Okinawa and Wakayama, ture-bride emigrants come Bre given back and during the last four years he the first numbering 290; the second 250 has held the post of Generalissimo of the and the third 210. Southern army fighting against the

These marriages sometimes turn out un- North. In this somewhat aimless strife happily, but the authorities estimate that fo has had to act not only as a general no fewer than 20 per cent. result happily directing operations in the feld but he percentage higher than under most has also had to create his material. He riages probably has very little to do with systems--but the happiness of the mar is the War Office and the Ministry of the revision of the regulations. Munitions, the Chancellor of the Exche quor and G.HQ all in one Ho has started in his own county military training school and a munition factoy HERMAN PROPERTY IN KOBE and be has to and the money to caTY TO BE DISPOSED OF BY TENDER them on as well as in large measure to pay and feed the army. If in the raising of this money he sometimes treads on the corns of Europeang and Americans and Japanese, and if he takes more from Chinese than they think he is entilled to The real estate belonging to former ask, can anyone wonder? But whatever enemy subjects in Hyogo prefecture was money he handien is devoted to what he to be disposed of by tender on February considers the public good, and not to 21st. The Germans and Austrians, includ his own enrichment. But Chan Kunng ming is a soldier only from necessity, ing the Deutsche-Asiatic Bank, realiza because he thinks he can serve his country that when once their present premises best in that way at the present time. He leave their hands it will be almost in- is farsighted constructive statesman possible to obtain premises elsewhere, who could do his best work in peaceful as a despatch to a Tokyo newspaper. times. He is a most enthusiastic educae ad authorities to permit them to buy bave, therefore, appealed to the pre- tionalist In Amoy back in his student day in their property at a price satisfactory he started a girls school in his native to the authorities, but this was denied. city. There were no women fatchers They are now attempting to re-purchase available then, but four elderly women from those who may buy the premises, bút were employed to accompany the girls to school from various parts of the city, stay with them during school hours, and see them home safely in the evening Today he bas turned the city into a centre of educational activity. A girl school and & school for the trading of nurses are run at his expense. He has provided the equipment for a middle school and an industrial school, and his hope seems to be that as soon as the prospective normal college eshall have turned out & sufficient number of teachers,

In reply to questions by leaders of the education shall become compulsory in the Kensei-kai and other Opposition parties, county of Hoifing, Chan Kuang-ming the Government states that since the des has a keen interest in the social betterment patch of the Japanese Expedition to of the people. He would, if he could, Siberia in 1918 there have been 1,800 deepen and improve the waterways and casualties in killed and wounded, while make communication easier. began his part of that great highway the Expedition to the present amounts to He has 500 have died from disease. The cost of which will extend on the one hand to 1.673,700,000, Canton and the Sonth and on the other was granted to the Umak Government a

Of this total, Y-1,800,000. through Bwatow and the Fukion province loan for the purchase of arms and to Shanghai and the North, and will Ammunition. become one of the arteries for the com merce of the country. He ig a man of simple tastes and temperate habits und he has a wonderful power of gathering people round him. Among his helpers in educational and social as well as in his down by a bicycle in Jubilee Street, and A Chinese, 30 years of age, was knocked military ventures many are men of edu-was taken to hospital, suffering from in- cation and character, who seek the best juries to the mouth and eye. He aue interests of the country, but very many cambert to his injuries later in the day. doubtles who are parasites. To this man-- soldier, educationalist and patriot ewe say A Chinese youth was stabbed in tho in the words of one of the Prayer book shoulder with a knife by a man, who can Psalma" In the name of the Lord, we wish not now, be found. The youth is in hos you good luck.”—D.B. entirely a pitak

LEAGUE OF NATIONS SOCIETES

IN JAPAN

the authorities in order to deliver the pro- perty to responsible parties have decided not to allow brokers or commercial cón- cerns to bid.

JAPAN'S

EXPEDITION IN

SIBERIA

THE COST,

ACCIDENTS

A Chinese burglar, in attempting to ynde, arrest jumped over a two-storied verandah and sustained severe injurie all over bin body.

The Asahi states that ander different A coolie, employed by the Kowloon auspices, three organisations aiming at Godowns, was stacking up several bags of the promotion of the League of Nations rice, when a number of bags fell on top principles are about to be brought into of him. He was badly injured and re- being. One is under the promotion of moved to the Tong Wah Hospital Barons Shibusawa and Sakatani, Dra. Anozaki and Soyeds and other business men and scholars; and in another scheme the younger diplomats at Kasumigasaki, are chiefly interested; while the names of

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