Tokio, March 19.
An amended Bill for the payment, by Japan alone, for a period of eight years of a subsidy of Y. 300,000 to Marquis Katsura's Oriental Colonization Company has been introduced before the Diet. As a practical assurance of Japan's the Company it will undoubtedly protectorate over the operations of
Debentures to the amount of Y. 10,000,000 will be issued in ten separate lots, to provide capital for side works, which will include banking and marine enterprise, and mining and manufacturing industriee.—Our Own Coresponlent.
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