Tokio, Mar. 28.
A despatch reporting a serious outrage by the police has been received from Beppu in Oita Prefecture, Kiushu. According to the local message, 10 police officers of the Beppu Police Station attempted a raid upon the suspected den of professional burglars and gamblers at Matogahama, near Beppu, during the course of which some 60 houses were destroyed by fire.
The owners of the latter have taken the matter into court, claiming compensation for the loss of their property and the violation of their personal rights.—Reuter.
Te N.Y.K. line inform us that they will again issue round-trip tickets at 13 fares on their European line—available for two years to the date of _re-embarkation—beginning from June 9 next, for first and second class passengers between ports east of Suez (inclusive of Port Said) and the ports of Marseilles. London and Antwerp. With the reduction in fares also announced by this firm for the near future, and the new Blue Funnel ships which are being built for the China run, there appears a prospect of more possible for others besides millionaires.
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