Tokyo, Aug. 15.
It is reported that the Franco-Japanese Commercial Treaty, garding tariffs on certain specified articles, which was concluded: on March 8, will become effective on August 28—Reuter. wards became an "adviser" t> the Amir of Afghanistan, He has been in Japan on previous occasions and had a second string to his bow in the shape of religious propaganda s0 much fashion of certain Indian political leaders, Your correspondent had met him on a previous occasion and fevered that, behind this makeous fervour, thave burn a fierce hatred of the Occident, p:
ularly of Great Britain.
There are rumours in Japan thal the "rajah" is connected with Third Internationale and that this, more than anything else, has been responsible for the curt and abrupt manner in which the "Japanese authorities sought to curtail his stay here.
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