Kobe, May 24, Unable to meet the demand for bottoms, two local concerns. yester= day placed orders for three 0,000-ton ships with major dockyards here, Koo An-foo, @ farmer of Tung Lo Vilage, Tientsin, was placed under urrest by the authorities on May 29 because he secretly sold about" 400 mow of land to the "Japanese, thus violating the authorities' recent order prohibiting the sale of land to the foreigners without official permission.
'The Kishimoto Company placed an order for "two vessels" with the Kamasaki Dockyards. "One of them will be launched in June, 1998; the ther, four months tater. Bach' ship wilt east 2,000,000, The Meiji Sea Transport Company placed its order with the Toma Dod Yards of the Mitsu Bussan Kelaha—
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