On page 2, reports from within Germany are given prominence. Two executions are referred to in as many lines, one for alleged robbery and the other for a moral offence. Working conditions are also aptly described by a report according to which men employed in transportation are legally entitled to ten hours continuous rest per day. In other words, 14 hours of work are not considered excessive in time of war, even in transportation where the slightest error may lead to chaos.
Capital is made of freezing school-children in Copenhagen and the lack of food-supplies in Paris, while new legislation regarding the insurance of motor-cars laid up as a result of the war, is also given prominence, thus launched a vigorous c.mpaign pointing out that such a step would seriously affect his city.
Investigations by the company, the "Mainichi" revealed, had shown that out of the 10,000 persons who travel between Shanghai and Japan every month, 70 per cent. come from eastern Japan, principally through Kobe, anti the remaining 30 per cent. from western Japan, comprising Kyushu and Shikoku.
The 7,400-ton Kobe Maru, now nearing completion at the Nagasaki Dockyards of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Company, will replace the s, Kashima Mara on the Kobe-Shanghai run in August, the newspaper said, The Kashima Maru, 10,559-ton 27-year-old veteran of two wars, will be returned to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha to be placed on the Japan-Europe service.—Domei.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.