'The Tokio papers dwell on the abundant value of the Yentai and Fushun mines, which' the Russians have surrendered to Japan. Que journal goes on to predict that the value of the Fushun collieries will amount to nearly ten thousand million yeu, Marshal Oyama has recently issued a proclamation for the collection of laud tax in Kwangtung Province dating from the 38th, (1905-6) fiscal year of Meiji, The details of the tariff and the procedure of collecting the tax are to be fixed by the Civil Administrator, Mr. Ishizuka.
Phe transportation of all peditionary troops to Japan will requ ix months at least, as in doing so it is intended that the interest of non-military sections will not be sacrificed, as was the case in despatching them to the front. The return of Marshal Oyama and staff might not be earlier than January next. For the protection of the Japanese secti: of the Chinese Eastern Railway fifteen are to be left per one kilometre and the total garrison will be about one division, S. MOUTRIE & CE.,
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