Normal Conditions Being Restored on Istand Tokyo, Nov, According to official despatches eaching Tokyo from Formosa, the public, telegraphic service has been copened at Musha, roads are being repaired and the situation general-cly is being rapidly restored to normal.
Small groups of tribesmen are Believed to be still lurking in the forests, but aircraft report that mone have been sighted. of reinforce-planning to make a drive through the neigh-Douring valleys for the purpose of clearing out the remaining rebels the meantime, parts of the forests are being cut down and burned for the purpose of increasing the tick! of fire and the range vision—Reuter.
Tokyo, the "Advertiser" was burn in mid-afternoon.
On that occasion the sta had time to save typewriters, "records! and varices other valuables incloding the linotype matrices. Presorvation of this latter item allowed the Advertiser" to reappear in its original type dress within a few weeks, as soon as machinery could be rushed in from Shanghai and Jother points and. sheltered within temporary-construction "barrack" type of building.
Tt appears possible that the latest disaster may be more serious, since it probably came with less warning and it is unlikely that a rear deal can have been saved. One unhappy aspect of the case the fact that after the earthquake fire, the "Advertiser" management invested heavily in job and other Printing machinery which can hard have been salvaged to any great extent.
Under, the administration of Mr. B. W. Fleisher as publisher and editor, the "Japan Advertiser" has risen to a position of great _in-nonce throughout the world. Com servative in appearance and content Mr. Fleisher has always refused to admit even the almost" universally accepted "comic" in any of ite manifestations—the "Advertiser" [concentrated upon printing the feream of the news from abroad together with a careful selection Jot information on events in Japan. He had a number of special ser-viees and his own correspondents {in London, Washington. and eleewhere. The editorial page was always notable for its considered leaders "and general informative material.
Mr. Fleisher, who is well known in newspaper "circles everywhere and who established ther "China Press" in Shanghai though he has long since relinquished any conneetions here, eas @ recent visitor in Shanghai but returned to. Tokyo [about a fortnight ago. Many Shanghai and other Far East journalists are "graduates" of the "Japan Advertiser," and they and members of the foreign reading public in. general will mourn most sincerely if the latest disaster should couple with the present depressed business situation in Japan to put fin end to the paper.
Beazous for the Trouble Moji, Nov. 4
Resentment at the forced lowering of wages due to hard times, dread at the national census taking and dormant hatred of Japanese must have been chiefly responsible for the untimely outbreak of aboriginal uprising in Formosa, according to Prof. Yoshimatsy, the Tokyo Imperial University, who returned to Moji to day from a tour of the island colony. w'These dnd. other added causes drove the tribesmen to make the tack on the Japanese residences and made them determine to fight to the last man against the Japanese authorities, the professor commented.
He added that the ignorance of the Japanese policemen on duty in the aboriginal districts in regard to the real situation in the area due to their having been recently posts was one of the reasons. why so many policemen and peaceful Japanese residents met untimely death—Rengo,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.