The directors of the Manchou-noon "Company, for. the Develop ment of Heavy Industry ~will meet in Hsinking in the near future to discuss the. question of increasing the company's capital to ¥.1,000,000,- 000, "Machinery and mechanical apphanoes will be imported from Abroad, and foreign "capital, it is tated, will be given the opportunity of partaking In this" development scheme. "Of course." says Mr. Oikawa, the company's Managing Director, "several international complications may make it difeult for Us to attract foreign capital. Nevertheless, we shall proceed with our plans'
A. strange and mysterious.ilIness which strikes only at women—and strikes fatally every time—has once more reared its head in these disfrlets. "It made its frst appearance last year in the Pingtsian "district where several women are alleged to have been thrown into a raging fever—and in two or three days! time to have been no more. Now it seems to be stalking Wuchan, 400 miles from Harbin, where 15) women fell sick and died. This dread disease has no name, It unknown science. No one can offer any rea-fon for its fastidious abstention from the male sex. Some time ego two Japanese doctors left for Wuchan land had the bodies of the 15 victims Gisinterred in order to try and find some distinctive symptoms. So far they have not succeeded.
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