Manila, Mar, 2.
An. express service between Amoy and Manila 1s to be inaugurated this month by the China Merchants Steam Navigation Ca,. according to a st ment made by the company's Ame con advisor, Mr. William P, Hunt, 'Arriving at Manila on March 28 the s. Haichan will open the service, after which the company will main: tain a regular ten-day schedule, It Ig understood that' the chief object of the service is to enable the local Chinese, most of whom are from Fukien, to visit their homes more fre~
Orphaned seven years ago, when her parents and her two brothers succumbed to illness in the brief period of two months, a 14-year-old Japanese girl who, does not speak her mother tongue, salled for Kobe March 6.
She is Mise Mary Yoshiwara, daughter of a Japanese watchmaker who opened a shop at Shihnan, Hunan, 13 years ago. When she waa Jott alone by the death of all her family, she was taken to the home of American missionary.
There she lived until October 27, last year when the missionary was "compelled by regulations" to turn her over to the Japanese Consulate-General at Hankow, according to the "Shanghai. Nippo.
While Miss Yoshiwara's uncle, who lives in Hiroshima prefecture, wan being notified by the authorities, the tirl was placed in the care of BA. Hatsuo Ohtani, manager of the Han-branch of the Tatung Kungssu, and his Chinese wite, 'A. reply _was received from Hiroshima on February 27 and Miss Yoshiwara, accompanied by Mrs. Ohtani, left immediately for Shang hal, where they arrived on March They sailed for Japan by the ins, Asama Maru on March 6.
Mss Yoshiwara, the Japanese dally said, was reluctant to go to Japan.
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