All the four so-called proletariat parties in Japan have sent a joint note to the their sympathy, and help; beyond this evidence of unity, however, these four proletariat parties are like Kilkenny cats, and internal schisms are the order of the day. The Nanking Government recently invited Mr, Ryusuké Miyazaki, a ising young lawyer and a member %f the Central Executive Committee of the Soci Democra-tie Party, to be legal adviser to the Nationalists. He is well-known in this country, owing to a scandal in which he was involved some five years ago, when he eloped with the Countess ' Aki-ko Yanigawara, a cousin of the late Emperor. Owing to his confirmed predilections towards Socialism, the Tokyo police kept a keen watch on all his movements and, when he declared his intention of going to China, he was forbidden to do so, Miyazaki, however, managed to get to Nagasakicnd thence contrived to reach Mukden, May 15.
Mr. W. Stotzner, a distinguished German ethnologist, who has arrived! here by way of the Siberian route] from Berlin, is preparing to set out). appearing before the northern vance of the Chinese. He is given every facility by the Chinese Government, Mr. Stotzner first came to China i 1909 when he travelled on horseback from South-fern Siberia across the Altai Moun-to Kobdo, thence to. Urga, and. finally to Kalgan and Peking' In 1913 he conducted a scientific expedition up the Yangtze into Tibet, but had to return owing to the out: break of war.
He took command of the German Legation Guard in Peking from 1914. On his present expedition he will be accompanied by a zoologist and a taxidermist. He will start from Mergen.—Reuter,
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