Tokyo, Dec. 25.
Japanese journalism has lost much in the "Jil Shimpo," Liberal inde-Pendent dally, the last issue of which was sold to-day. Founded on March 1, 1882, by the late Mfr. Yukichi Fukuzawa, who also established _Kelo Gijuku University, the paper carried on the Liberal tradition set up by tts first president throughout its 54-year career. Beset by financial troubles after the Great Earthquake of 1923, the paper had a dificult existence in bitter, his feet rest not on the pavement but on the top of a small Bucket in which charcoal is burning. One saw' several sales concluded as tone watched these moderate practl-Toners in trade,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.