With @ cost of half a million yen to build, a Palace of the Press will raise ils head over the rest of Harbin late next summer, This new building, the Kobe-Kalkan Publishing Com= any (which combines the. "Nichi-Nichi," the "Tapeisinpao" and the "Harbin Times," a Russian-language daily) will have a tower visible from all over the city, with a large clock on each of its' four sides. When completed on October 1, It will, it Is said, be the best technically equipped "palace" in Manchoukuo. It will boast of not only an internal postal system. whereby papers and letters will be delivered from one room to another by means of a special system of shafts its walls, but also of a dining-room and Turkish bath for ils Japanese and Late in the evening of November 25, Jseveral blocks near the waterfront which are known to harbour persons no definite occupation—and persons of occupations all too definite—were startled by a sudden police raid. A number of street women were detained, Jand also men and women engaged in bogging. his marked the beginning of a series of police raids almed at rooting out, "street corruption and stirra: here over the national Considerable excitement has been
mobilization which the Manchoukuoan jgovernment—fotlowing In the footsteps of Tokyo—plans to bring Into effect in the earlier part of December. Government measures will likewise }bo taken to ensure that in the event a war or conflict the man-power and material resources of the country will be in a state which could satisfy the demands of modern warfare.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.