Tokio, Feb. 18.
The plan suggested by the Government some Weeks ago of split. ting the present Department of Agriculture and Commerce into its two component parts and creating each asa separate Department, under its own Minister will, it is reported, be put into, force next April.
The new Department will be entitled the Department of Agri culture, while the present bureatt will be known 98 the Department of Commerce and Industry.
The name of Count Oki is most, freely mentioned in Sonnexi with the new mi Rowiar's Pacific Servite.
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