Show NEWS NOTES FROM THE ORIENT I Japanese Fans Offensive to dans Tale dans-Tale Tale of Cruelty In the Japan Mail Mall is a curious little tale of the fate of a consignment of Japanese fans imported into Bombay The Mall Mail says A number of the fans were found to be decorated with pictures of the holy places of Medina Mecca and Bagdad So soon as this had been ascertained the dans of Bombay took tool steps to buy up all the fans regarding them as legious Having thus averted the danger danger danger dan dan- ger of their falling into the hands of followers of other religions they addressed addressed ad ad- dressed to the local authorities a document document document doc doc- bearing signatures in which they begged that steps might be taken to prevent any further importation importation importation im im- of such fans The matter was brought to the notice of the Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese consul and he has asked the foreign office in Tokyo to warn th the fan merchants against sending to India goods which must tend to injure Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese trade Says the Pekin Times A A rumor is current in Seoul to the effect that some days ago several Korean children children chil chil- dren and a whole family of of Koreans were deliberately shot by order of the Japanese military authorities at a certain Lain tain point some distance north near the che Seoul railway No reliable details are at hand as we go to press but it is believed that the children children chil chil- dren were amusing themselves by playing on the railway track track and probably probably ably placing stones on the rails |