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So profitable have the luxury duties proved which were imposed a year ago that it is reported the Department of Commerce and Industry will advocate new import duties on watches and phonograph records. The profitableness of such duties indicates the spreading field of Japanese consumption and also of manufactures, for the new duties are planned also as a kind of protective tariff.

Colonel W. K. Naylor, U. S. A., now stationed in China is author of a book The Principles of Strategy. So much admired was it by the Japanese, that they had it translated into their language and placed in the hands of every officer of their army. Lieutenant Colonels Hasabo, Chief of Staff of Japanese troops in Northern China, and Furujo, Commandant of Japanese troops at Tientsin recently presented Colonel Naylor with the Japanese translation of his work and a silver cigarette case.

A typhoon brought a cloudburst into the thickly populated district around Tokyo with the following results: Twelve lives lost, 20,000 houses flooded (including 1,000 completely submerged), bridges swept away, telegraph wires broken between Tokyo and Osaka, 1,000 acres of rice fields inundated. Damage was estimated at $7,500,000.

The same storm which drowned people in the lowlands froze several to death in the mountains.

At Tokyo a court sentenced Gaku Sano, one-time professor at Waseda University, to ten months in jail for attempting to form a secret Communistic Society. He had recently returned and surrendered himself for trial, having fled to Russia two years ago when the Tokyo police were lodging radical on radical in jail.