Show HAPPENINGS IN THE ORIENT Japanese Cperccnt war bonds continue con-tinue to decline The Japanese Government has chartered char-tered seventeen steamships to be used In transporting troops to China j I I rFoars are entertained in Korea lest 1 the rnjclous Boxer fever 11183 spitiad I there and add to the complications of tho situation I IOn I 0 i-On tho 25th and 2Gth of June Yoko hama was visited by no leas than twelve earthquake shocks within for tyeight hours On June 2Sth l fire broko out in Tn kaokn Toyama prefecture Japan and destroyed nearly ninetenths of the city Flvo thousand houses including a number num-ber of Government buildings were burned From Karen there are indications of serious trouble arising from an ant I fhflstlan and antiforeign movement I similar to that of the Boxers The I missionary element theme as In l China I comes in for a 1 good share of the blame I The pay of Maccabebe soldiers In the Philippines wil be Just onehalf that given lo American troops owing to tho fact that they are to be paid in Mexican Mexi-can silver while the Americans arc paid In gold The large circulation of silver money In Manila und the Philippines has made an opportunity for counterfeiters and then Is evidence of one or more gangs in Manila and he I provinces who manufacture man-ufacture spurious UlO coins Raids In Manila have resulted In findIng find-Ing several 1 baskets full of bad money In Iho rear of a Chinamans house and a Filipino wan discovered with several I thousand dollars worth of counterfeit 1 fivedollar bills and a box of recointd I American sliver dollars in his possession i posses-sion I I |