'A Japanese version of Enoch Arden is to hand from Shikoku, the southernmost of the bigger islands of the Japanese archipelge, Some four months ago, thirteen men ent out as canal to east thei nets, but failed to return.
es, parents and children kept watch day after day, but, as the days lengthened into' weeks, hopes of ever seeing them again were abandoned. Formal tunerd services were held and them mourned for og dead, while a young, wife of one of the missing men ey contracted a second marriage.
Last week, the Fuji Mary, be-larging to the prefectural govern-rent of Shikoku island, brought the men to their home port, and it was then revealed that their boat had been struck by a sudden storm and they had been washed ashore on Aogashima island, isolated island in the Pa though inhabit tion with the mainland only wh prefectural government boats visit which is about four times a year.
The Luxury Tarif It is quite possible that, befor the present session of the' Diet over—provided the Government is allowed to do some construe Luxury ich things like tea. Lutter, cheese, jams, honey an' [scaps," which to the foreigner are absolute necessities of life. either be repealed be radi
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