Yusen Kaisha to cope with the rush of passengers between Japan and Shanghai, the s. Bokuyo Maru arrived here on Tuesday afternoon with 475 passengers and a heavy cargo, the local Japanese newspapers reported yesterday.
She was preceded by three hours into Shanghai by the Nagasaki "Maru, the regular Shanghai-Nagasaki ferry, which arrived with 478 persons aboard> Included among the latter was Mr, Tomoshiro Kurahashi, manager of the Shirokiya Department Store in Tokyo, who was credited by the Japanese dailies with the intention of organizing branches of his firm here and in Nanking.
The Rev. Hogan Yonemoto, of the Shukufukuin Temple in Nagoya; Mr. S. Uehara, deputy commissioner of the Shanghai Municipal Council, and Mr. Teijiro Asahina, vice-consul who was formerly stationed in London and Singapore, were among the passengers, Also aboard were 16 nurses from the Kyushu Imperial University, 19 staff members of the Japanese operated Kiangnan.dockyards, and others, sail from the Colony on October 8 in the K.P.M. liner Boissevain, making an extremely interesting trip "home" via Manila, Saigon, Bangkok, Singapore, Batavia, Rodriguez, Mauri-tins, Reunion, Tamatava, Lourenco President Roosevelt acted today to avert a motional railroad strike by appointing a three man emergency fact-finding board heeded by Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of North Carolina to investigate the fifteen per cent. wage cut deadlock and to report to him within thirty days—United Press,
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