Shanghai, Apr. 9.
"Fire extinguished," says a message received here to-day by Messrs. Dodwell & Ca, Shanghai agents for: the Barber-Withelmsen Line's motor~ ship Tricolor, which caught fire while proceeding across the Paci to San "Keeping lower hold 5 flooded, adds the message, which proceeds: "Cargo shelter deck shifted out. Be-Neve no damage vessel. Cargo Hold 4 little or no damage due to water."—Reuter.
Tokyo, Apr. 8.
Japanese Army officers to-day were told to "lay off" politics or be Jéropped from the service.
Ina strongly-worded address before the assembled commanders of li divisions in Japan proper and representatives of the Korean, Formosan, and Kwantung Armies, Gen, Count H. Terauchi, Minister of War, warned against activities detri-menial to the maintenance of discipline in the Army.
"Not only do political activities of individual officers conflict with their Jduties;" he said, according to a re-Jsumé of his address released by the War Office, "but they are more likely to prevent the attainment of their cherished ideals.
"The wishes of the Army regarding national administration become important only when the Army is impressingly immovable and when the people place their trust in this strength,
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