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Home Secretary's Warning: Chinese Princess to Wed Japanese Officer Frou Ov2 Owx Cosszsroxoryr cldences are always startling enough to raise other thoughts, en Mommiog of rook Palen Pee wil ti stated, be generous towards this new factor Japan's domestic political world, amer comets Bale Sevier bat any ste teal tinge wi severely dealt with and such a party will be declared officially to have ce-operate with this new party will depend on the platform und manifestes adopted by the party. The Government of Japan is still the good old-fashioned bourgeois sort; the new party, political observers say, will be definitely radical. Should it include in its platform such planks—which it is reported 25 Patecriating ts haveer nationalization of the land, claiming pay when serving the conscription period and demanding the right to merge with international proletarian bodies, the Government insists that squashed. This stand has been made by the Government because the authorities believe that the toe tae be an attempt to hie" eckl fole which will only lead to civil disturbance' if not nipped in the bud.
Fine eet Ae ctont Bove. ciples," declared the Home Minister, on whom depends the onus of seeing Bas ete of become fatected with the virus of Bolshevik poison, "will mean rigorous steps anc prompt extirpation of the party. The franchise was given to help To Save Life in Submarine Disasters The Japanese Navy Office assert that its experts have discovered a means to salve sunken submarines in sufficiently quick time to give the men in the under-water vessel more than a chance of staving off device is called the "Yoi taka pin" after one of the engineers fof the Japanese naval arsenal at Yokohama, who, with two others, Rear-Admiral Fukui and Engineer Furuta, claim the honour of having made this invention.
1 called on the Navy Office, soon after the Japanese papers announced the news, and received the fol-Towing explanation from Commander Terashima:
"The idea is to have a stout wire ross the stern of a battle. explained. of. this is fastened a discarded submarine; to the other what we call the 'Yamataka pin.' The discarded submarine is then filled with ovater to just the extent where it will be heavier than the under-water vessel lost. Then the 'Yamataka pin' gets to work, scours the ocean depths and finds the submarine wanted."
'The idea seems fantastic. For tone thing, how would the Yamataka pin go down when " submarine, heavier than the one being sought after, is at the other end of the rope. For another, how is one to Know soon enough' where the submarine went down; then, a submarine does not settle on the ocean bottom right below where she was last sean to dive; she may go a mile or more at & tangent before she finally settles down.
Commander Terashima would not discuss these things which occurred to the layman's inexpert brain, but assured me that the invention was a necess and would be a "revolution-benefit to all humanity"—the Japanese always like the word "humanity" stuck in—which, of course, if would be if it can do the magic claimed.
One strange thing is that this invention came on the heels of the loss of the M1, the British submarine that went down off the Isle of Wight and the desire of Britain to have the submarine "the axsassin of the deep." az Lord Balfour called it at the Washington Confer; ence, abolished. However, this may be a mere coiggidence, and, coin, Heat From the Bowels of the Earth 'A successful attempt to get heat from the bowels of the earth is launed by Dr. Tachikawa, of the Tokyo Electric Light Ca., who has for some time past been engaged a scheme to harness the Jigoku Funkiko, (literally, Priests' Hell Crater) and make it serve man. This crater is in the south of Japan and. constantly emits steam. He claims that he has succeeded and is able to utilize the steam for producing electricity.
Alongside the crater, Dr. Tachi kawa placed a steam-power turbine and managed to produce energy totalling four horse-power which he then used for lighting. Much depends, he says, on the condition of the weather, which has to be well studied, if any worth-while results fare to be obtained. When the weather is favourable, he says, electricity can be produced very cheaply by harnessing the steam issuing from volcanic craters.
Dr, Tachikawa proposes to make the project for utilizing the earth's heat a commercial proposition. His plan is to sink @ deep well in the hot spring district of Kyushu, to begin with, and force the subterranean fires of the earth to serve man.
Chinese Princess to Marry Japanese 'A former Princess of China is to be married to a Japanese of mixed Japanese-American birth. The bridegroom, it is expected, will soon be appointed Military Attache at Peking.
The story of the romance comes from Assam, high up in the Japan 'Alps, where' Princess Tong Sheng, daughter of Prince Ssu of Chinn. has lived as a lite girl, her parents having fed to Japan with her on the outbreak ut the Revolution. The prospective bridegroom is the only child of a Japanese diplomat who married an American lady. His name is Mya Yamaiye and he a Lieutenant in the Bist Regiment, which has been stationed at Asama for the past year. The future bride has a Japanese name, Yoshiko ywashima, and enjoyed' a reputation for beauty which was so good, reports say, that the village people called her the "Queen of Asama.""
Lieut, Yamaiye, besides being reputed to be a gallant soldier, is also credited with having a good knowledge of the Chinese classies. Love tokens between the two, it is averred, were always written in el Chinese.
The bridegroom expects to be sent to Peking as Japanese Military Attache, He is well fitted for the job, his-superior officers say, whi they also desire that the early married life of the couple be spent in the Celestial City where, if the Manchus were still on the Dragon Throne, Yoshiko-san would yet be Princess Tong Sheng.
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