HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-09-13, Page 3FOREIGN RESIDENTS IN'TOKIO
ESCAPED, 30,000 NATIVE LIVES LOST
Yokohernaa Suffered Much More Severely Than Capital City
But Total of Casualties is Still Ulicertain-Seventy
Foreigners Killed in Yokohama.,
A despatch from London says: -
The appalling nature of the Japanese
earthquake, fire and tidal wave, with
the greatest loss of life and property
of any similar catastrophe in modern
times, continues to be told by meagre;
and unconnected press despatches and
private .messages . from foreign resi-
dents and tourists who survived the
holocaust. But Europe still awaits
the graphic story of how the earth
shook to pieces and then consumed in
flames Japan's capital and scores of
towns around Tokio Bay, including
the great commercial port of Yoko-
hama.
The loss of life is estimated at such
varying figures, in some eases run-
ning into hundreds of thousands, that
any certainty i of the casualty is im-
possible while communications with
the devastated districts remain as
they are.
On the whole, the news received on
Thursday is of a more hopeful nature
than any since the disaster, one auth-
oritative message from a British
naval official at Yokohama placing the
aths of foreigners in that port at
,enty and stating that all the for -
Ignore in Tokio escaped. Even this
number of dead, which is small as
compared with first reports, is enor-
mous for a foreign colony of a few
thousands and indicates that the loss
of life. among the native population'
may reach the highest reported
figures.
The only official estimate is basedi
on Home Office information from
Tokio that the loss of life there was
30,000, but Yokohama is known tot
have suffered march more severely than)
the capital city, and the Home Office
figures do not attempt to take into
consideration the one hundred miles
of coast -line towns and villages, all
in the path of the tidal wave.
All available information ° shows
that Tokio and Yokohama were not
totally destroyed, the foreign residen-
tial district of the port city, which is
on a high bluff overlooking the bay,
suffering comparativelylittle damage,
while the residential suburban dis-
tricts of Tokio also escaped. This
would account for the few deaths am-
ong the foreigners there, for on Sat-
urday afternoon few would have been
In their office.
The destruction in Tokio extends
over two-thirds of the metropolitan
district of foreign wards, "with the
low-lying districts completely wiped
out. These include the slums of Fuke-
gawa, the industrial section of Honjo,
both on the right bank of the Sumida
River, A sakusa, famous for its amuse-
ment parks, Kyobashi and Nibonbashi,.
which include most; of modern Tokio,
where four or, fi.be-storey buildings
lined the principal thoroughfare, the
Ginza: This section also includes Tsu-
kji, in which, befpre Sayan was cone;
pletely opened to the western nations,
foreigners were compelled to reside.
It has recently been occupied princi-
pally by missionaries, their' schools
and hospitals. During the summer
most of the Tsukijo residents are out
of the city, but the loss of property
has been. heavy.
In other sections of Tokio-Asabu,
Shiba, Akasalca, Yotsuya and Ushigon
-where the foreigners live in more
or less isolated foreign compounds,
consisting of a .few western ,style
houses
houses built on small hills, the damage
was by fire, which, on account of the
number of open spaces, could be con-
trolled. The foreign embassies and
legal centres were widely scattered
throughout the higher .districts of
Tokio, and a number of them, -includ-
ing the United States Embassy, have
been destroyed.
A later despatch from London
says :-With communication between
the devastated earthquake districts of
Tokio and the Southern Japanese
ports of Kobe and Osaka partially
restored by airplanes and road'trans-
port along the Takaido route and with
the pick_of Japan's well-trained army
divisions, which have been,converging
ori the ruined capital since Sunday,
exerting discipline to restore order
among the hundreds of thousands of
homeless, news from Japan begins to
give some definite idea of the loss of
foreign life. There are approximate.
ly 100 dead or reported missing, half
of whom are British, but the Japanese
Government representatives here are
still uninformed as to the number of
Japanese who perished through the
earthquake, fire and deluge. It is
certain, however,that the death list
will not exceed 50,000, if it reaches
that figure.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS SUCCEEDS IN
SIETTLING ITALO-GREEK DISAGREEMENT
A despatch from Geneva says: -
There was an air of relief in Geneva
Friday evening at 'the news from
Paris that the Ambassadors have ac-
cepted the "unofficial" suggestions of
the League Council for a settlement of
the Ital'o-Greek dispute, which the
Italian representative,. on the Council,
and M. Hanota, for France, Thursday
- evening prevented from being made
official. Signor Salandra formally re-
fused to accept them, on the ground of
•the incompetence of the Council to
make them. Hanota wanted to have
then referred to his Government be-
fore he would accept them. His Gov-
ernment and the Government of Italy,
in the persons of their representatives
on the Ambassadors' Conference, have
now accepted them. Poincare will act
on the suggestions of the League with-
out having openly to admit that the
League had anything to do with a set-
tlement, and Mussolini will accept the
terms of the League handed on by the
Ambassadors without having to ad-
mit that they are League terms.
And so everything is likely to be
settled and the ground cleared of the
actual case in question when the ques-
tion comes up for settlement, by the
Council and by the ' League, of its
competence to deal with such a situa-
tion as that which so disturbed its
tranquility all this week.
All but the most ardent supporters
of League prestige appear satisfied
,with this arrangement. There are
some, of course, who fear that the
Ambassadors will have all the credit
and the League none. There are others
though, and they are not the least im-
portant, who argue that without the
League the Ambassadors would never
have been able to impose such :terms
on Mussolini, who only a week ago
was refusing to recognize even their
competence to deal with such a. pri-
vate affair of Italy's
Almost all are glad that so early
in its career the League has., been
spared the ordeal of such an open
split with one of its original members
as would have happened if everybody
had not been awake to the danger of
the' situation, and they are glad that
time will be ' given for an academic
discussion of :the League's competence,
which otherwise would have been far
too burning a matter for so young an
organization.
HOW FOUR PERISHED
'ON WRANGEL. ISLAND
Eskimo Woman Sole Survivor
of Expedition Headed by
Allan Crawford,- Toronto.
A despatch from. Nome, Alaska,
says: An Eskimo woman, sole sur-
vivor of the Crawford expedition,
which left here for Wrangel Island,
off the northern coast of Siberia, in
the fall of 1921, described the fate of
the four white men composing the ex-
pedition. '- The trip was arranged by
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, with the prin-
cipal object of raising the British flag
over.the island, which had. been claim-
ed by the Soviet government
Three of the party -Allan. Craw-
ford, of Toronto, leader; ' Frederick
Maurer, New Philadelphia, Ohio, and
Milton Galls, New Brunfels, Tex.: -
perished the second winter, the Eski-
mo woman,' named Ada, .said. They
went out on the ice seeking the main-
land and never returned.
The remaining man, Lorne E.
Knight, McMinnville, Ove., died of
scurvy - June, 20, 1023, and his body
was :brought back by the relief expe-
dition, headed by Captain' Harold
Voice, which left here August 3. Cap-
tain Noice said his power schooner,
the Donaldson, had little 'trouble
reaching the island.
The first evidence of the missing
patty fouacl by Captain'Noice's expe-
dition was a bottle in a desertedcamp,
containing the names of the party
with the declaration that they claimed
Wrangel Island the name of King,
George of Great Britain.
Ada fainted when she saw the men
of the Noice party approaching and
Dr. Gustav Stresemann the Donaldson near by. On recovery
she told the tale of the disaster. Di-
rected' by Ada, Noice found Knight
dead in, his sleeping bag. Ada said
she had done all the hunting and had
cared for Knight for 'two months be-
fore his deathafter he died
Chancellor of Germany, under whose
lead Germany is apparently relenting
in her former attitude: toward the,
French occupation, and may eventually
-take up the "responsibility 0f, Meeting
•
her debts,"
WHERE ITALY COMMITTED AN ACT OF WAR
Corfu, a Greek island off Albania, bas been bombarded and seized shy
Italian weir, ships''with ten minutes" 'warning to the population. Half of the.
60,000 pdpulatio•n are Armenian and Greek refugees from Turkey. litaly's •
preelpitabe action appears to be part' of a plan to close. the Adriatic sea, mak-
ing it virtually an Italian lake. Janina, where the Italian mission was mur-
dered, is shown an the map.
STRIKE OF 158,000 COAL MINE
WORKERS
COMES u 0 AN END
A despatch from Harrisburg_
says:-Governor.:Pinchot's. labors to
bring about peace in the anthracite
miners' strike were rewarded on. Fri-
day evening,.when officials of the
Miners' Union accepted his peace pro-
posals. The ,strike of 158,000 workers,
which began September 1, is virtually
at. an end.
The miners dropped their demand
for the check -off and more than a 10
per cent. increase for day laborers.
Joint negotiations for a new contract
began at'7 o'clock Friday evening at
the State House. As soon as the con-
tract is ready it will be presented for
formal ratification to a tri -district
convention of union .delegates at
Seranton or Wilkes-Barre. Ratifica-
tion is expected. The formal order
calling off the strike will then be is-
sued. No predictions could be made
at present as to when the men would
return to work, but it is believed here
that coal -digging will be resumed in
about 10 days.
nopointof dispute Thei'e is pu
re-
maining between the two sides which
is in any way likely to justify a con-
tinuation of the strike," said Governor
Pinchot, in making the formal , an-
nouncement that .the miners had fol-
lowed the operators in accepting his
peace plan.
John L. Lewis, president of the Un-
ited Mine Workers, said that Governor
Pinchot was entitled to the praise. of
the American people "for the present
happy. termination of an unfortunate
situation."
Acceptance of the:Pinchot proposal
was unanimous by the Sub -scale Com-
mittee and the Full Scale Committee
of the miner's meeting Friday. The
former consists of Mr. Lewis, Inter-
national President; Vice -President
Philip Murray, and District Presi-
dents Thos. C. Kennedy, C. J. Golden
and Rinaldo Cappelini.
The Full Scale Committee is com-
posed of 30 officers of local unions.
she left him in the sleeping bag and
put up another tont fifty feet away.
Last. December, Ada said, Knight
and two other men started for the
mainland, but through some mistake
landed near Perald Island, and after
two weeks returned to Wrangel.
Knight was too ill to travel. Craw-
ford, Maurer and Galle started for
Siberia, taking dog feed for seventeen
days and very little other provisions.
Ada said they, too, took a wrong di-
rection, moving to the southeast as,
they passed forever fronrher vision.
Britain Warns; Soviet Not.
to Interfere With Wrangel
A despatch from Moscow says: -In
reply to the note sent by Foreign Min-
ister Tchitcherin to Great Britain pro-
testing against the raising of the
British flag on Wrangel Island by an
expedition of Vilhjalmur Stefansson,
the explorer, Great Britain has in-
formed Russia that the expedition was
a private affair, organized by Stefans-
son, and 'that it sloes not touch the
question of Russia's sovereign rights
over the island. However, any attempt
by Russia to hamper the; work of the.
expedition would be viewed by Great
Britain with utmost gravity, the note
says. In a reply to Great Britain, M.
Tchitcherin accepts the explanation.
He declares, however, that co-ordina-
tion between the countries concerned
must exist when the sovereign rights
of one State are" at issue.
Tehitcherin's note to Great Britain
said Wrangel Island had been incor-
porated into Russia's territory in
1821-24, that Russia had built light-
houses and other works there, and in
1915 formally notified all allied and
neutral Governments that the island
was an integral part of Russian terri-
tory. The note added that the Soviet
Government regarded the raising of
the British flag there as a violation of
Russian sovereign rights,
Chief of Greek People
Premier Cola Gonatas, whose reply
to Premier Mussolini in reference to
the demands of Italy for reparations
and apologies over the murder of the
Italdaa Miselon in Albania, includes ac-
ceptance of four of the seven articles.
The other three are infringements of
Greek savereignity, he declares.
League Accepts Erin's
Application
p
Application for Admission
A despatch from Geneva says: -
The only work. done by the League of
Nations on Friday was by committees.
As foreseen, the committee to examine
the claims of applicant powers -accept-
ed the demand of the Irish Free State
for admission, and rejected that of
Abyssinia, on the ground that that
independent African kingdom was not
free from the stain of slave traffic,
which no League member should allow
to blotch his escutcheon.
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Starting life in a workhouse, a girl
has just taken her B.A. degree at Bir-
mingham. University.
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Dominion News in Brief
Lytton, B.C.-A promising gold
strike is reported from Kanake, back
of here. It, is the head of Kwonek
Creek, sixty-eight hundred feet ele-
vation, and gives value of thirty dol-
lars gold and thirty- to fifty dollars
arsenic. "
Medicine Hat,'Alta.-Four mills at
this point report continued activity in
the foreign market for Canadian flour,
The Lake of the Woods Milling Co.
have received an order for 43 'tons
of flour for China, while the Hedley
Shaw mill has received an order for
25 • tons from the same 'source, The
Maple Leaf Milling Co. have booked
space for 1,050 tons for export to
China during August, September, Oc-
tober and November.
Winnipeg, Man. -Furs to the value
of $250,000; 90 per .cent. of which went
to New York, London and Paris buy-
ers, were sold at the opening of the
fur auction sale here. Beaver, silver
fox and'bear was in keen demand,
beaver advancing 20 per cent:, silver
fox SO per cent., and bear 10 per cent.
Sudbury, Ont -A new industry is
to be established in the Sudbury and
Algoma districts, where 1,046 square
miles of timber have been acquired by
the Continental Wood Products Co.,
Ltd., who will erecta kraft pulp mill
at Alsace, at a minimum cost of
$1,500,000.
Quebec, Que-The Department of
Lands and Forests is engaged on a
scheme for the establishment of 'bur-
eaux of'forest research in ,various
ps..-ts of the province. The'.scboels
will serve 'somewhat .'the same func-
tions as the den'ionstration, farms,
with the exception that their activities
will,' be confined to trees only. A sum
of $25,000. has been set,aside by the
Government' for thefurtherance of
the scheme.
Fredericton, N.B.-The 30,000 lbs.
of woolxraded recently for the New
Brunswick Sheep Breeders' Associa-
tion,
under the co-operative grading
and marketing scheme, has now been
sold. The largest consignment will be
shipped to Hespeler, Ont., consisting
of 20,000:, lbs. The remainder will be
shipped" to Albany, New York. It is
understood that the price received for
the wool will be in advance of the av-
erage of
v-erageof 22 cents per lb. reached last
season.
Thet+' eek's
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TORONTO.
Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern,
81.271 .
Manitoba barley -Nominal.
All the above, track, bay ports.
Am. porn -No. 2 yellow, 81.08.
Barley -Nominal.
Buckwheat No. 2, nominal.
Rye -No. 2 nominal.
Peas -No. 2,'nominal,
lalillfeed-Del., 1VIontreal freights,
bags included: Bran, per ton, $28;
shorts, per ton, $81; middlings, $37;
good feed flour, $2.10.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 white, nom-
inal,
Ontario No. 2 white oats -Nominal.
Ontario corn -Nominal.
Ontario flour -Ninety per cent., pat.,
in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship-
ment, $4.60 to $4.70; Toronto basis,
$4.50 to $4.60; bulk seaboard,. $4.50.
Manitoba flour-lst pats., in cotton
sacks, $6.90 per bbl.; 2nd pats., $6.40.
Cheese -New, large, 241 to 25c;
twins, 25 to 26c; triplets, 26 to 27c;
Stiltons, 26 to 27c; Old, Stiltons, 33c;
twins, 331i_ to 3'lc. New Zealand old
cheese, 31 to 32c.
Buttcr-Finest creamery prints, 38
to 40c; ordinary creamery, 36 to 37c;
No. 2, 34 to 85c.
Eggs -Extras in cartons, 42 to 43c;
extras, 40 to 41c; firsts, 36 to 37c;
seconds, 28 to 29c.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 8
lbs. and over, 36c; chickens, 2 to 3'
lbs., 30c; hens, over 5 lbs., 24c; do,
4 to 5 lbs., 22c; do, 8 to 4 lbs., 17e;
roosters, 15c; ducklings, over 5 lbs.,!
22c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up,`
25c.
Dressed poultry Spring chickens, 8
lbs. and over, 38c; chickens, 2 to 3
lbs. 35c; hens, over 5 lbs., 80c; do, 4
to'bz lbs., 28c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 20c; roost-
ers,
oost
ers, 18c; ducklings, over 5 lbs., 28c;
do, 4 to 5 lbs., 25c; turkeys,.young, 1
lbs. and up, 80c.
Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, lb.,
7c• primes, 6',¢c.
Maple products-Syrup,per imp.
gat, $2.50; per `5 -gal. tin, 2.40 per
gal.; maple sugar, Ib., 25c.
Honey -60 -lb. tins, 11 to 12c per
lb.; 10 -lb. tins, 11 to 120; 5-1b. tins,
12 to 13e; 21 -lb. tins, 12 to 14c; comb
honey, per dozen, $8.75 to $4; No. 2,
$3.25 to $3.50.
Smoked meats -Hams, med., 27 to
29c; cooked hams, 48 to 460; smoked
rolls, 22 to 24c; cottage rollls, 23 to
26e; breakfast -bacon 30 to 840; spe-
cial brand breakfast Macon, 34 to 38c;.
backs, boneless, 32 to 38c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50
to 70 lbs, $18; 70 to 90 lbs., $17.50;
90 lbs. and up, $16.50; lightweight
rolls, in barrels, $36; heavyweight
rolls, $88.
Lard -Pure tierces, 16 to 161c;
tubs 161/4 to 17c; palls, 17 to 17/c;
prinks, 18%c. Shortening, tierces, 14
to 143§c; tubs, 141 to 14asc; pails,
14% to 15/c; prints, 17 to 17%o.
Heavy steers, choice, $8 to $8.60;
heavy steers, good, $7 to $8; butcher
steers, choice, $6.50 to $7; do, good,
$6 to $6.50; do, med., $5.50 to $6.50;
do, tom., $4 to $5; baby beeves, $8.60
to $9.60; cows,'fat choice, $4 to $4.75•.
do, med., $3 to $3.75; do, canners and
cutters, $1.25 to $2; bulls, butcher,
good, $4 to $4.50; feeding steers,
good, $5.50 to $6.25; stockers, $4 to
$5; bulls, butcher, $4 to $4.50; calves,.
Welcoming New Canadians
Miss Tremaine, on the staff of the
Immigration Department at Quebec,
caught by a photographer on duty at
that port. Sister Tremaine is the dis-
tinguished Canadian who nursed ging
George at Buckingham Palace after
his accident in France during the war.
choice, $10 to 810,75; do, med.,. $8 to
$10; do, com., $4 to $8; milch cows,
$60 to $100; springers, $80 to $110;
sheep, choice, $6; do, heavy, $8 to $5;
do, yearlings, $8 to $9; lambs, ewes
and wethers, $12 to $12.25; bucks,
$10.50 to $10.'75; commons, $8 to $9;
hogs, flat rates, $10.85.
Quotations, fed and water basis:
Select bacon, $11.40 to $11,90; thick
smooths, $10.85 to $10.86; lights,
$7.40; heavies, $9.40; sows, $6.90.
MONTREAL.
Corn Am. No. 2 yellow, • $1.04 to
$1.05. bats, Can. West. No. 2, 571/8 to
58c; do, Can. West. No. 3, 56 to 661c;
do, extra No. 1 feed, 55 to 551c; do,
No. 2 local white, 54 to 542c. Flour,
Man. spring wheat pats., lsts, $6.90;
do, 2nds, $6.40; do, strong bakers,
$6.20; do, Winter pats., choice, $5.75
to $5.85. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs.,
$3.25. Bran, $28.25. Shorts, $31.25.
Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $16.
Cheese, finest easterns, 232 to
23%c. Butter, choicest creamery,
85%c. Eggs, selected, 40c.
Com. dairy cows, $2 to $3.50;` com.
bulls, $2 to $2.60; good veal calves,
$8; med. sucker calves, $6 to $7;
grassers, $8 to $3.50; ungraded hogs,
10.50 to $10.80.
Penny Postage Being Re-
introduced in New Zealand
A despatch from Wellington, New
Zealand, says: -Penny postage is be-
ing reintroduced in this country, be-
ginning on October 1. The first tem-
porary loss of revenue as a result of
the various postal reductions is esti-
mated to £252,000 a year,
The Government decided about three
months ago to reduce the postage to
the old rate of a penny.
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THE STRICKEN KINGDOM
Tokio, the capital, and Yokohama, the great port and commercial city, both destroyed, are shown on the map, as well as Nagoya, Saskob, Osaka
and many others of'the Japanese cities mentioned in tiro news. despatches as stricken. The loss of.life'has been appalling, fire aud'flood adding to the
and that horror,of earthquake.
Intelligence Service
for Readers
Our financial and commercial
interests are demanding the
more energetic development of
our natural resources to assist
in the liquidation of otic war
debt: ,This recognition of the
value of our national heritage.
has created and intensified the
demandfrom Canadien and .Cor-
eiei manufacturers for accur-
ate information ns to the, loca-
tion, available supply, and pro-
gress in development of these
resources, especially as they
pertain to our'fosests, minerals
and water -powers. ILaw - ma-
terials and ,power supply are
the first necessity,of industry,
and the Department of Interior
at Ottawa, through its Natural
Resources Intelligence Seryice,
reports an increasing number
of requests regarding these.
This branch, fortunately, is in
a position to answer such en-
quiries, and has also issued a
series of resource maps and
other literature ofvalue to the',
commercial interests. These
are available on application,
and it is suggested that our
readers snake ,themselves' fami-
liar with the services which the
Natural Respurces Intelligence
Branch is able to render them.
WEST'S WHEAT CROP
NOT OF BAD QUALITY
But Out -turn of Grain Will
Exceed Anything Known
in Prairie's Past.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:--
A
ays:-A yield of 452,503,169 bushels of
wheat from Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Alberta this year is predicted in
the twentieth annual crop estimate of
the Manitoba Free Press.
Alberta leads the Prairie Provinces
for production of wheat per acre, ac-
cording to the estimate, with an aver-
age yield of 25 bushels from 5,956,061
acres, the acreage issued by the Do-
minion Government Statistical Bureau
on August 11. The total Alberta
wheat yield is estimated at 148,901,525
bushels.
An average of 21 bushels per acre
from 12,790,984 scree is predicted in
Saskatchewan, with a total yield of
268,610,664 bushels.
In Manitoba, where much damage
has been caused by rust and sawfly,
an average yield of 12 bushels is pre-
dicted from 2,915,915 acres, the total
yield being estimated at 34,990,980
bushels.
The yields of coarse grains for the
Prairie Provinces are estimated as
follows:
Oats 388,825,295 bushels; barley,
61,540,140 bushels; rye, 24,876,560
bushels, and flax, 7,193,026 bushels.
The growing season of 1923 has
been a particularly trying one in many
respects, the newspaper says, and
while the .outturn of grain will be
very much the largest in the history
of Western Canada, it will not be as
satisfactory a crop to handle as many
a one that has preceded it; neverthe-
less the great volume of grain which
in the coming months will pour
through the "neck` of the bottle" sea-
ward to the ships must, even at pre-
vailing prices, represent an enormous
movement of money also.
The loss from rust in Manitoba,
more especially, has been heavy, very
heavy; there has been loss in all the
provinces from undue heat just as,
the heads of wheat appeared from the
shot blade; there has been some loss in
all the provinces from sawfly and from
two somewhat new enemies, namely,
glume blotch and root rot," the news-
paper states in reviewing the growing'
conditions of 1923.
Coarse grains are on the whole a
pretty satisfactory crop, the report
says. Winter rye is possibly the most
disappointing, as many splendid
stands did not fill well and the sample
is less plump than usual.
"The wheat crop of 1923 is not a
number one northern cropin any of
the provinces," the report says,
"though there will be number one
northern from all of them. This grade
it is quite probable that Alberta will
lead, though in view of the uneven
ripening due to continued rains the
percentage of number one northern
will not be in proportion to the actual
weight per bushel of the grain from
that province, which will be extremely
heavy,' more especially from the
north.".
Supplies From Canada
for Japanese Sufferer
A despatch from Vancouver, B.C.,
says: -With 600 tons of supplies from
Canada for the earthquake 'stricken
people, the steamer Empress of Rus-
sia sailed_Thursday afternoon for Ja-
pan, The cargo is consigned to the
relief
relief -commission at Tokio. It is made
up of flour, salmon, canned milk and.
oth
There articles.ss Eanpreof Russia will be the
first steamer carrying relief supplies
to reach Japan from the American
continent.
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A large meteorite that recently fell
in India appears include three kinds
of matter. There is igneous rode of
a slate -gray color, rather heavy and
marked with spots of dark turquoise
blue; a quantity ref; jet-black, highly
glazed lava with turquoise blue veins;
and a material that resembles coke hi
appearance and weight.