JAP 



,i ! a 



J|. . the 



nonmed acnaai the 

 >y trainer tu Jn|u for lea* money 



rry, raw cotton. wrtmu 

 manufacture*, in all in. 

 y, and in petroleum. The oil wells 



uha ha. been formed. 



hr 1 

 1 -f 7,500,000 yi-n. f-r the 



I.K ' M H ' 



taui.hips across the Pacific, and to keep 

 ig between lialoum and Japan 



.rprtn.l.-..,.,. In I *; ft - t* B iptaftis* I 



< total iniporU war* valueil at 188,* 



cin,,- whose receipt* In 1888 wvn U0UJ68 mjd 



are also 888 flr 



M nii.r.-.-..n.|.aiii.> Mid 181 RMsfe tMBfU - - 



Marat Ion. In 1*U4 there were 85,000,640 imb- 



th a 



and in which were 3,888,785 pu facial and 



pupil*. Apart from tin- ImjH-rml fm- 



umea of Japanese and t 'huifM>. and 41.331 volumes 



ropean languages. Tl..- local and 

 munal taxes to SUM 



to 7,500,488 Ten. 



receipts, amounted to 11,904,608 yen, or 87*79 



yen to everv 100 inhabitants. The total valuation 



- urouiatod funds, land and buildings, furni- 



::i&486 copies; 518 serial 

 4 disappeared dunn- the Year; 



-The Empress Dowager died Jan. 11. 



!lU-ial fui, h tcx,k place Feb. M. with 



amazing pomp and close adherence to ancient cus- 

 tom*. ,-,..-1 >,;,, ren, vh* h wai voted bi th< ln> 

 h burial wan in Kioto. One hour 

 was consumed in lowering 1 1..- >flin n.t.. the grave, 

 hcelebration ..f th, , .. tit, an in i rial rifl ; "" 

 00 y m was distributed to thr people, 88,486 con victa 

 had thnr t.-n: r it.ininut.il. ami 15,788 



were released. The bill chu nntional 



standard from silver to gold wit- introduced Feb. 8, 

 and itasMHl March;?:: 



.-h the peers sat twenty-six ami the House 



lm|-rial Iii-l adjourn.-. 

 1-ilK K8. and < 



were named. The sevrre press regulations were so 



modified that the suspension of a newspaper can 



!-lace only after an action in court. On 



March 83 " The Japan Times," a first-class news- 



MI Itagafci resigned the leader- 

 ship of tin- l.iN nil | 



>sa all in: had been compelled 



t>*htp by the 8th of May. The 



,'ovininn'nt hnd N-*n Iwully mUmanaged. ami 



-.-ility and crm-l- .-ipanese officials 



resulted in many scandaV againt which Judge 



Takano v ;U ulv protested; bul on .: rmininc i - 



:llce was removed from his official rsaV 



strikes and other labor t roubles, 



which now occur frequently, snow the changed con- 



ditionofiheindtutrialpft^rmmJapan. The rise 

 .tfM. great as it is. does noc keep par* with the 



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.-.< 



* reat ttre ai llarhojt destroyed 



lo be issued and tne 



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instaaduf five years, and no silvrr yen weretoeir- 

 eulate after March 81. In one transacikm th. 



.,;.- SJMMM HU HMMWM,,...f.f,. '.'..;., | m 



'v<ff. On the Kanaai KaiUay. loco- 



.---.;.. . < , 



lent ! 



' < i .- .-. - 



r of 8JB80 ton*, was launched at Yoko- 

 suka, Nov. & Several new treaties or conventions 

 were made with other nations during the Tear, and 



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ates of the rice crop* snow a yieio of 1 < 

 bala, compan- : 1888. 



firsuwa. Tai-Wan. or 



a new 



to. or the Pescadores, are indodsd in the new 



possession, of Jain. cded from China in 1886, the 

 former with its islands and the latter with 47. 

 The total area under settled government is about 



aanar p Dai IV n ; . . .- .- ~"J: H8 ' 

 whom TU880 are in the Pescadores. The islanda 





aJ. iron. fold. rice, 



40, .pices, fruit, gra: 

 ing variety of forest prodncU. The two chief ports 



treTami . ,: : K. >n&tlM I nsfi - '>- : s. 



the 







in 1896, amounted to $7.018,645, and an increase of 

 $888,106 over 1886, the exports being slightly in 

 excess. Of American products, flour snows an in- 

 crease of 50 { ver 1886, and 1.150.000 

 gallons of American petroleum were imported. 

 Camphor and tea are the chief article* of 

 ( hincse junks import pics, poles, and 



.11 MS. 



Bomtt onfcrenrr. al Beaal \ m si B 

 outcome of the plan suggested by Dr. 



i. in a pamphlet entitled - A Jew. 



fen Statr." mid in varioas addream for the estab- 

 lish,, Jewish state in Palestine, After a 



thrvrda}!.' >4vsi,,n 

 .. central 

 gramme declares that - the aim of Zionism to to 



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sured home in Palestine, M and that the means to 



i. ,.--.. ir , ... , : ' - 



Palestine of individual Jews. ** the cat 

 Jewish people,- and thai 

 nts and national * 

 Th.- ssnauttraOommsliaeoaMmsiol i 



ti*** fr<>n> .\ut r 1 1 tiic ; ' ' 

 the Balkan states. 8 from Germany, and 1 

 from Prance and M the Jews of the Ka*t." That 

 I MM.-*. Italy. Holland, and 

 other countries are not rtpresantul, and the dis- 



of the world and the number 

 i rr*nlatire on the committee are to be ex- 

 plained by thr f.,, t that it t onlv in Row or 

 parts of Aostro-llungarv and in Roomania that 

 Ziootsm in its pronounced form has aroused special 

 Btion. In other land* it has awaken**) u ; 

 -* nee. In Germany the Union of 



,n U1 aJIS P SliS2snf 0n 



lo bold 



nism -an 



c*l Zionism -an egregkxM blunder." and 

 rabbis of Prance and Belgium have con- 

 n fact, so general was the agitation 



