The Panchen Lama made a belated but dignified entry into Mukden yes. terday afternoon, Great prepara tions had been made for his reception. An arch of welcome had been erected on the station platform, and from this stretched a long path of pet, while a military trong, held the station form and its approaches, The train from Tientsin was two hours ate in arriving, which meant that the Tibetan dignitary made his ap-Pearance in the gloom of a winter evening instead of the early afternoon. However, that seemed to make little difference to the large crowd of Chinese and Mongolians who had assembled to witness his coming.
When the train drew in, General Yang Vu-ting and Civil Governor Teh-hui entered the carriage loceupied by the jastic and shock immediately afterwards. A few minutes later, Panchen Lama alighted. 'The' military band played an appropriate air Jwhile the guard came to the salute, Having paused till the band ceased, lhe walked slowly along the carpleted path to the pailou where band of kneeling lamas recited their, deep-toned greeting, and then proceeded to the place where a large [sedan chair, borne by eight Jawaited him. This he entered and ried to the Huan Ssu or! Emperor's Temple, where he has taken up residence. The chair pass-led through dense crowds, among. whom were many Mongolians who bent the knee and voiced their grest~ ing.
The vessels of 100 tons gross and over launched in 1924 numbered only 45, with an aggregate gross tonnage of 72,446 tons, whiler in 1025 the total fell to 39 of 60,009 tons, and in the latter year many of the firms dismissed large num bers of their employees, One interest. ing and outstanding development the period under review, however, has been the commencement of the manufacture of Diesel engines in Japan. A good man; ships fitted with imported machin ery of this type were built in previous years, but in 1925 the Kobe Steel Works undertook the _construction of Diesel engines fora cargo, vessel of 9,000 tons, while the Mitsubishi Dockyard are also building engines of thi type for tone of the three 7,200-ton liners to South American' service of the Osaka Shosen Kais and for two cargo-boats and one tanker of smaller tonnage. Three large passenger steamers of between 44,000 and 15,000 tons will shortly, be required by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha for the Transpacific ser-vie which they have taken over from the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, and these vessels have to be built in Japan in order to qualify for the some of the yards can look forward with a certain amount of optimism to 1927, as they are fairly certain to secure orders for part of the programme of replacement of obsolete auxiliary
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