Fifteen Aeroplanes Destroyed of a Value of Three Lakhs Allegations That Japanese are Starving Manila Factories Mukden, May 23.
A fire broke out suddenly at the hangar of the Mukden Military: Aviation Bureau at 2 p.m. yesterday, with the result that 15 aeroplanes were completely destroyed. The fire was extinguished with much diffeulty at five o'clock the same afternoon, The damage is estimated at approx: imately $300,000. The cause of the fire is unknown. It is Said that some of the aeroplanes were only recently purchased from France and were expected ta be used in the projected flight between Mukden and Japan, Marshal Chang Tsodin, ordered the authorities concerned strictly to investigate the cause of the fire—Toko.
Manila, May 8.
Local button factories have recent. ly made complaints that the supply of pearl shells obtained from the Sulu Sea and other southern waters inadequate for their needs. The pearl beds are largely worked by the Japanese and it is claimed tha: they have been exporting the shells [from the Philippines to such an extent that the local button factories are unable to get supplies The Bureau of Science has detailed fa representative to visit the pearl beds and provide means of super-_ vising them so that shipments may! be made to button factories in Manila, where a continuous supply is required.—Reuter.
A cour of fishermen recently made a rare catch in the River Don when their net dragged in the head of a mammoth weighing 360 Ib. According to the estimate of Professor P. C, Berezonsky the mammoth to which the head originally belonged flourished in the world about. half a million years ago.
Toxo, May 21.—Seventeen Chinese connected with electric enterprises arrived from Peking this morning, at the invitation of Ba Den, President of the Japan Electric Associati ig remaining till May 27 inspecting the generfal condition of electric enterprises jin Japan—Reuter.
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