The outbreak of a couple of cases of cholera in Kobe and Osaka is causing considerable alarm amongst officials, in view of the coming Coronation festivities and the prox-unity of Kyoto to these two cities. The first person found to be suffering from the scourge was a Chinese deck-hand belonging to a British freighter, the other being a Japanese to whom the disease is be-Heved to have been communicated.
Some 10,000 persons have been li culated with bolero serum, while the sale of aquatic products along the Kobe and Osaka sea front has been prohibited.
Judicial circles here are in a flutter of excitement over the arrest of Mr, Tokimitsu Nagaoka, till recently a Judge of a Provincial Court in Korea. He is charged with forgery and fraud in connection with a million odd yen that Ataman Simionov had been claim. ing for some time. This money the Japanese Government refused to hand over to the Ataman and it wae stored away in the vaults of the Yokohama Specie Bank. Judge faoka and a lawyer of the name of Yokota are alleged to have forge ed certain documents and got German to impersonate Major-Ge: eral Pochargin, in order to obtain the money. Many other arrests are expected to be made and it is generally thought that the revelations in Court will be of a very startling nature.
All the existing patents of the Junkers Aeroplane Company of Germany for Japan have been purchased by the Mitsubishi Aeronauties Company, the Japanese firm proposing to construct Junkers planes and Junkers aviation motor engines
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