Tokio, Aug. 17.
The Government of Korea to-day publishes a long statement on the subject of "the clearing from the people are forsaking the villages, and going to live in tents or booths. on the hill and riverside. Un. fortunately they are not careful about having their food carefully cooked, neither do they abstain from drinking unboiled water, so moving to the borders of streams may make matters worse, Roveers at Lanes, The residents of Tubshan have had somewhat of an anxious time. Officials in other districts passed on the information that a large band of robbers were planning to attack and rob Tubshan. time there were no soldiers static ed there, so the official and gentry took up the matter of defence. Fortunately the soldiers who are to' be stationed at Tuhshan for the future arrived before the robbers, or the latter might have succeeded in carrying off money and valuables As the robbers are strong and da ing they may yet attack the city, for the soldiers are not numerous.
One of the leather factories in the city is in a bad state financial. ly, and it is not to be wondered at as the work turned out is of an inferior kind, and the workmen have not the' interests of the owners at heart. Recently there have been many complaints lodged at the factory, and it will nob be surprise to anyone if the place is shut down in the near future.
The officials "shut down the butchers" hoping to propitiate the of better feeling towards China. peninsula of native radicals." The—Reuter.
Government declares that between March 15 and July 6 there were 21 armed attacks on provincial offices Is view of the Opium Conin which seven persons were killed ference's resolution in 1913, and health provisions of the League of and 10 seriously wounded, and five buildings were—burnes Public Nations Covenant, Japan has been money, amounting to Y.2,985 was drawing up regulations for the stolen. The killed and wounded prevention of the export of opium, were mostly police officers. morphia, and cocaine to China and The statement continues: "The the South Seas, except for purely medical perpoms, and these will be Provisional Independent Government of Korea, organized by the Office Ordinance.
jertly promulgated as 'a Home Radicals, has adopted Bolshevik measures and instituted a murder corps, composed of young people, Tar trial trip of the str. Yuet with its headquarters outside the Wah, a twin screw steamer owned frontier. They have attempted to ces Hoag chipping Ca. cendiarism and robberies and to carry out wholesale murder, inthe vessel making a complete cruise ye terrorize the population. The round the island, There were oig|JaPanese police force has ex-The visitors on board (all Chinese except Mr. W. Russell and Mr. Lambert, surveyors). The average speed attained was 9.3 knots, She was built and engined by the Kwong Sang Loong Engineering Ca. and is said to be the largest ship ever constructed by a Chinese company in Hongkong, steel being used throughout. She is two-masted, has two decks with three bulk: heads, and is capable of carrying 600 steerage and 64 first-class passengers. Her length is 239 ft. and main breadth 33 ft. 5 in. She is 1,500 tons (gross) and 865 tons (net). She will be put on the Swatow, Amoy and Foochow run. perienced the greatest difficulty in fighting this ceaseless campaign of violence but has, nevertheless, succeeded in finally driving out the Seoul, Aug. 18.
Yang Kenitaik, the notorious Korean agitator, has been arrested here. Yang was formerly editor of the "Korea Daily News." and for years carried on anti-Japanese agitation in Manchuria. He was arrested last year at Tientsin and was exiled to an island. He was liberated last sping and joined the "Donga Tlpo," which he left later because of a quarrel with the staff.—Reuter.
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