Tokio, Dec. 17.
Owing to collapses within a coal-mine at Kasuya in Fukuoka Prefecture this morning, 30 miners are entombed. Owing to gas, rescue work is difficult and it is feared hopeless.—Reuter.
THE city of Mukden seems to be developing rapidly on modern lines. The other day we learnt that a tramway system was being considered and now the "Manchuria Daily News" informs ug that the new S.M.R. Ca. Gag Works on the point of completion is to be opened on December 28 The subscribers to the gas service number 2,300, exceeding: the estimated nunfer by about 300. Already, connexions for 1,920 of them have been installed.
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