Tokyo, Feb. 22.
Mr. K, Takahashi, Minister of Finance, to-day announced that the Bank of Japan will be given the sole ght to issue bank notes. The Bank wan, whose money is used in Formosa, and the Bank of Chosen, issuing power and ranked as or-
Singapore, Feb. 20.
That the building of the Singapore Naval Base was fully justified was plied ina speech here to-day by Sir Shenton Thomas, Governor of the Straits Settlements, who declared that people in this quarter would oe able to live in peace as a result of the construction of the base.
it should be completed with the maximum of efficiency, he added, and, as long as he had any influence in the matter, if would, Reuter.
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