The number of the Russian troops now staying in Manchuria is reported here, evidently on official authority, to be 130,000 and their distribution is as follows Shingking Kirin Malung Province. Province. Province.
25,000 30,000 35,000 2,000 1,500 25,000 2,000 3,000 Engineers.....- 1,000 1,200 Ry. Corps...—700 '800 Helping China.
The Japanese are about to give still another proof of their sympathy with the Chinese. ale Te seems that before Western civilisation found its way into Japan, the province of Toyama was noted for its output of patent medicines. These medicines were.con-cooted after the Chinese fashion and are even still supposed by some old-fashioned people to cure all the ills that flesh is heir fo. However that may be, certain it is that their compounders cheerfully admitted that the concoctions were worth their gold if not exactly 'a guinea a box.'
The most famous of thes medicines were the Mankintan (which means "worth-ten-thousand-gold pills") and the Senkintan ("worth-one-thousand-gold pills"); and even a few years ago the sale of these " remedies " used to bring into the province no less than four million yen a year. With the advent of doctors, the spread of educa" tion, and the enforcement of the crushing patent medicine duty, these big profits were greatly cut down, however, with the result that many manufacturers of panay coos found their wares "a drug on the market" and had to put up the shutters. We are now informed, however, on the best authority, that the diminution of income from the industry (i.e., the manufacture of nostrums) being a serious question for the economies of the province, Governor Higaki has advised the people to attempt the sale of the drugs in China, where owing to the scarcity of properly qualified doctors, as also to the cheesoparing and superstitious tendency of the people, Japanese "medicines" have already found a good market. As the first step towards putting this scheme in practice, the Toyama folk have decided to ask the Sample Museum in Shanghai to undertake the sale of a consignment of their medicine" on trust.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.