Mukden, Dec. 14, In order to stimulate the development of the Mukden International Settlement, the Director, Mr. Han Lin-sun, proposes to have a department store erected within the settlement and has invited Chinese merchants to embark on this enterprise, offering as an inducement the required building site free of all Toxyo, Dec. 17:—Count Kodama, the Governor-General of Kuantung, has resigned. He will be succeeded by Mr, Kenjiro Kinoshita. There is a possibility that Count Kodama will be appointed Mayor of Tokyo, in succession to Mr. Nishikubo, who relinquished that position last week.
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