Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1923, Page 4

CUKE VIGTIGS CUT - DOWRBY KOREANS By the Associated Press LONDON, September:11.—Refugees from Japan: breught to Shanghai by the Empress o# Canada, ecnfirm reports that foreign victims | of the disaster were robbed and / murdered, bays & Shanghai dispatch the Morning Post. All the sur- . of whom were taken to poignant storles of Many are penni- clothes, while sev- patients are being steamer o vivors, many ¢ hospitals, Told their experiences. less and without ral dementia red for. Some of the foreign busines cerns, the correspondent, decided against reopening their Yokohama establishments, fearing that conditions, in that city will al- ways be uncertain. ve thougand tons of medical, supplies v from Shanghal to Kobe, to- | gether with eighty tons of frozen meats, representing Hongkong's do- mation to the Japanese people. Two rellef parties of doctors and nurses have gon& to Tokio and Yokohan 1t is reported that Kobe i¢ overcrowded and that there is danger of an epidemic there. 400 REACH SHANGHAIL con- A have foodstufls and have been shipped Refugees From Yokohama Relate Harrowing Stories. By tle Associated Press. JANGHAI September 8 (delayed). were enacted when ss of Canada, car- rying approximately 400 refugees from Japan, docked here at noon to- day. Most of the refugees were resi- dents of Yokohama. They brought no baggage. There were many wom- en umong the refugees, but no weep- irg. There was an occasional hys- terical laugh, but for the most part the throng of refugees was silent All of the refugees reiate harrow- ing experience$ In the quake. The raphic of the tales are those M Robertson. a Shang- s Billy Coutts and Mrs. - McBain orient and is one of the horsewomen in —Touching scenes the steamer Empr ia b hal s Mrs, is wes William known Chir i, was sitting Thrown From ( sertson said sh at o hotel in Kamagura ling suddenly started chafr was upset and > the floor. tily to my feet” and rushed out- shook with great as forced frequently tree td avotd v 1k wir to seize ng thEown d t the in the following the general di- ma, eighteen miles antily dressed and covered only with thin slip- were bleeding. Wodies in Fissures. at I saw were flat- the bodies of men, women n were strewn everywhere roa ay Bod filled & the wav. Some of the five feet wide ached the seashore an “ herman. who placed 1 rowed four hours puil g me down at a Tuge which was destitute of exeent e dead, There was of life, pxgent #bprowling 1 resumed zht per. When my journey 1 saw Japanese country folk groping in the mrne- of their -homes and carrying their wounded in their arms wa though they could love them back to strength and health, I roads torn up and.railroadd’bent and twist iy reached Yokohama late Monday. eled since Saturday noon whole place was deso T I scrambled o debris and the bodies of the dead moans of the able to help 1 aker reached the w t fainti aboard 1m which ¢ 10 the steamer Empte: condition ved me of Australia, ary-refuge 4d hertson 1 T,ondoy relatives: storfes McB: to t £ home She sa old by Miss Coutts in are similar in many at told by Mt Rob- hey were stopping at summer resort five miles ura. They were both rooms in neglige. when the occurred. Théy ruashed onr- with their servants. Mrs. Me- was caring for_ her niece, Jean seventeen months old They all d to walk to Yokohama, go- ing two days without food and with Jittle water. All Passengers Dead in Car. The party, Mrs, McBain said,-final- 1y reached.a small village where they obtained Jinrickshas. but these. were of little as_ the roadway was filled with huge fissures E “We passed scores of bodies” Mrs. McBain said, “and in one place we saw a slightly burned streét car with all the occupants sitting dead in their natural attitude: ‘They had bheen electrocuted. Some had smiles on their faces, and one woman held a coin in her outstretched hand. She apparently was killed while tender- ing her fare to the conductor. Tn one village we found all the Japanese terrorized with fear, Korean Jooters were stealing everything in sight and killing those who resisted them with large knives attached to the ends of bamboo poles. Koreans Murder Many. We saw many vietims of these mur- derers Iying along the road with their heads chopped . off. The house in which we -6topped for a ‘time at this village was entered by these Korean m uders, who held huge weapons over our heads. We thought our time had come. Hugging- my -baby njec 10 my breast. 1 kissed her good-bye. But the marauders only mumbled a few words and started out. A little we sumed our journey to We reached the ruined evening and made our wa 10 the water front. We saw the Em- press of Canada in the distance.. The nearest the sampan could approach 10 the liner was under the bridge and we ot & spill into the water in trying 1o get aboard. The fact that Coutts is a fine swimmer saved u Through it all Miss Coutts man- ‘ged to save her favorite bulldog. FAMOUS DANISH ARTIST KILLED IN DISASTER Juel Madsen, Noted for Chinese Painting, Dead Kamugura. respects Dzushi from a K T at By the Associated Pross. SHANGHAL® “Septembér *'11.—The death of Juel Madsen, Damish artist, who was noted for his Chinese paint- ngs. is reported .as having occurred in the Japanese earthquake at Kamu- gura. He is said to have been the only foreigner who lost his life at that plac NEW QUAKE REGISTERED. FLORENCE, September 1° - The observatbry <hére* registered s,.r:ly before midnight last night a viol.nt carthquake in a northeasterly direc- tion at a distance of about 4,700 miles The seismic instruments wers in’ arn agitated condition for about two nourdy: - : : r found | L aterfront and | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, : ol ;Tells How Teokio Crumbled As He Raced Down Streets BY E. R. EGGER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News, Copyright, 1928. KOBE, September 11.—The full story of the terrible Japanese disaster will not, cannot be known for many months, The sufferings of the populace of the devastated area. the frightruiness of the scenes {h€y witnessed and the men> tal ordeal through which they still are passing even today, inany hours after the first temblors were felt, has not passed. Everywhere today, throughout all Japan, in fact, the people have not tully recovered from the suddenness of the holocaust. All will carry either on their bodies or in their minds the evers lasting" evidence of the past severa] days of horror. 1 was_in the midst of it all. It is only today that the real impressions can be described in words without his- tory. Shaving When Shock Came. The vastness of the tragedy piercing the heart.of the Japanese empire is un- realizable unless one has been through the, devastated area either during or since the holocaust. Your correspondent bears memories that are never forgettable of having traversed the entire area from Tokid to Yokohama during the worst period of the disaster. While shaving at noon on 'Septem- ber 1 I first noticed the glass com- mence shaking, then the walls of the room. The force of the vibrations Increaged until the usual unconcern which attends quakes of ordinary occurrence, changed to alarm and rushing to the balcony. the corre- spondent saw adjoining houses sway- ing back and forth while. his own house, a 1wo-story dwelling, was rocking like a cradle. Jumping over the balcony railing to a first story roof below, the cor- respondent, razor still in hand. sud- denly saw a huge brick building nearby tumble In ruins. A stucco house adjoining crumpled next. Then the Toars of tumbling structures be- came incessant l i { Huge Sections of Wall Gone. | 1 rushed outside and do Passing by Kasmunigaseki palace, home of the prince regent, the corre- spondent found huge sections of the | walls gone and the main gate lying flat The Diet building nearby was bad- damaged. Other government ildings which ure modern brick structures, had borne the shocky well. The stone gate posts of Hiblya Park, which marks the center of Tokyo, however, werd’Iying In heaps The greatest surprisc was at see ing the massive Imperial Hotel, built | of stone and brick, standing rock-' ntown. l ratists and Mon By Wireless to The Star and Philadelphia Pub- | lic Ledger. Copyright. 1923, i BERLIN, Sentember. 11.—How and | when will tlie h°come? is the | question every oné 15 asking in Ger- | many, and no one is answering sati tactorily [ Various theroies are being advanc- | ed, according to political or senti- | mental bias. but there is no accord except on the imminence of the dan- ger. Every one knows that unless the tensencgs is relleved soon the government wiil fall and anarchy may take its place. Communist - Uprisinz Seen. From a composite of the different | prognostics and the latest events it | appears that unless Chancellor| Stresemann succeeds in his plan of secret capitulation this is what is| likely to ocecur: i di] In Berlin and al] Brandenburg, Sax- ony and Thuringla the communists will assume power. This they would | era HUNGRY JAPANESE | TAKE OWN LIVES| Helpless Women and Children Re- ported Lying Near Rail- way Station. By the Associated Press, OSAKA, September 8 (Delayed).— An Eastern News Agency dispatch to | the Osaka Asahi from Toklo today says that many of the hundreds of refugees gathered in Ueno Park, Tokio, have committed sulcide as a result of hunger and exposure. Most of the refugees are exhausted and only a few are able to walk and these are feting to Nipporl, where tens of thousands of other refugees | lare collected. A large number of | i women and children are reported to| be lying helpless near the Nippori| rallway station, unable to continue their flight. The same news report says that among those-who have been reported dead, but wha have been found to be living, are the Princess Tsunenori Kaya, Tadashige Shimazu and Masoy- oshi Matsukata, Mayor Watnabe of Yokohama and Chief of Police Kume of Kanagawa prefecture. Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, younger brother of the prince regent, makes daily inspections of the infantry bar- racks, consoling the sufféres of th | Hono aistrict gathered there. It was) in the Honjo ward. that-the. eun..l quake did the most serious damage. More than half the men .in New- foundland are engaged in_ the fishing industr: IT'S NOT A HOME UNTIL IT’S PLANTED Buy your evergreens, - trees, shrubs and plants direct from the grower, 450 var ieties. Every plant covered by a 100% guarantee. Catalogue and copy of + “Home Grounds, . Their Planting and Planning,” mailed free. ROCKCREEKNURSERY P. 0. ROCKVILLE, MD. Nursery entrance én Rockville pike halfway batween Montrose and Halpine. | Kaw | stren | greeted | three “hochs” as “His Majesty, King| Saw City Burst Into Flames—Failed to Reach Ship—Awakened Next Morn- ing by Savage Temblor. like, uninjured, with nobody hurt within, Passing from the Imperial Hotel on down the street, on one side was the imperial palace, while on the other were the more modernly constructed {police headquarters, the Imperial The- ater and several office buildings. The walls inclosing the palace grounds, centuries old. had crumbled despite their supposedly shockproof construc- tion. The Imperial Theater and po- lice station were standing. The beau- tiful Tokio Kaikan, a recently com- pleted and modern hotel, was partly wrecked. In the Marunouchi district many huge modern office buildings were stil] standing, but the walls of several of them were hadly cracked. 1t is es- timated that 80 per cent of the mod- ern office buildings in Tokio success- fully withstood the = earthquake shocks. . Fierce Fires Spring Up. Soon smoke began to curl upward from various spots throughout the city. Within an hour flerce flames were shooting skyward znd spread- ing rapidly as a stiff breeze fanned them into greater destructiveness. Two hours later the same district through which 1 had passed, includ- ing the Tmperial Theater and police headquarters. were a seething fur- R Other fires were spreading rap- determined to reach Yokohama, ship there and use the radio, ? unsuccessful trial of a Ford truck with a number of refugees I footed it along the road and raflroad tracks through villages where houses were destroyed and where people either wandered aimlessly about or huddled in terror-stricken groups in the streets. Fires Line Tracks. Passing through suburbs toward Yo- kohama, continued fires lined the tracks on both sides. Finaily we could pene- trate no further and haiting, sought a place to spend the night. Without breakfast and still foodl at night, 1 bought t caki, seven mile and snatched a drink from some coolies. L Oons bench on the railroad platform, ree bananas at from Yokohama slept for three hours—sleep that w ntinuously broken by new quakes Aroused at 5:30 in the morning by especlally savage temblor, the corre spondent spied an uncooked potato ly- ing nearby. It was a welcome offering f_Providence Enterfng Yokohama at last through scenes «f utter Iverything possible had There was an endless gtream of Japan- ese. all of them plodding along with pitiable misery, some of them naked. At the Bund corpses lined the street. A dead mother and her child lay in the gutter. Bodies of men were scattered about, thelr de their features a 1 passed desolation. burned. nd in their postures. Ruhr Agreement or Anarchy Believed Imminent in Berlin! Break :Up of Republic Feared Lrniess§0nce-FeéN Settlement Is Reached Soon-Sepa-- archists Active. be able to do by the w. on of strike. and the 100,000 troops available would be insufficient to eontrol them. Thelr l‘:mvnrxll()n should be of short dura- “n—severa] months afi best—if the gth Bavarian and east Prussian nationalists Is not overesti- mated. ‘With the fail of the government, the geparatists in the Rhineland ana Westphalia' would be free to carry out their projects and sever them- selves from Prussia. he warranted in establishing a sep- parate government and leaning toward England for trade and assistance. Bavaria would no longer have any reason for deferring her monarchistic plans. power in Berlin before the communist. Bavaria would be backed by the na- tionalists in east Prussia, who would be expected in some way to join them for an attack on the Berlin communists. Many national organi- zatlons of officers are counted upon to join the Bavarians. Greeted as “Majesty.” The weak spot of this separatist Pand restoration of the monarchy idea is found in a question the Germans themselve: are asking—what will France do? The direction of the wind in Bavaria was well indicated by Crown Prince Rupprecht's speech Saturday at Munich, where he was in the throne room with Rupprecht. “At present it is not a question of my dynasty,” he said, our fatherland, of the German federal government, to which I am loyal with all my heart and which I really love first of all in its necd. you, gentlemen.” Prices Still Rise. Berliners are enjoying the fine weather outdoors and give little indi- cation of the nervousness generally felt. No street cars are running be- cause they have halted for a reor- ganization on a more economic basls, the deficlt for the first six dase in September totaling 517,000,000,000 marks. The ncbulous negotiations with France, plans for banks with a cur- rency based on an Imaginary fine gold and rye basis and dubious mortgages as capital and the edict on foreign funds are having no effect on the mounting prices for everything. Some of these now exceed the world rate, Restaurants have begun to lose pa- | tronage, for even the very wealthy are unwilling to pay the fantastic prices demanded today. If a complaint is made_the answer is that the price will be higher tomorrow. t 11 o'clock | h agonies stamped upon | Hanover would | In fact, many hope the mon-, | archists would by some miracle seize ut rather of | I count on| QUAKE ENDS DREAM OF FERTILE SIBERIA {Engineer Killed in Japan Had Hoped to Develop Riches in Russia. By tie Assoclated Prexs. LONDON, September 11.—By the death of Chester Wells Purington, the mining engineer mentioned in Naga+ saki dispatches’ as among those killed in the Japaness earthquake, America loses a modern ploneer whose dream Wwas to surmount the barriers of Si- beria’s little known trafls and open to the world's engineers and traders a stretch of country In northeast Asia three times the size of Alaska and, in kis opinion, fabulously wealthier, Mr, Purington was one of the few Americans who crossed the Pacific secking new worlds after the con- quest of America's last frontier in Alayka, » quarter of a century ago. He left London in 1921 for a final effort to open up Siberia, and was waiting in_Japan for political condi- tions in Siberia to become settled when the earthquake came. Known Throughout Far East. As the exponent of “the friendly north,” Purington was _ known <hroughout the far east. He Knew yevery mile of the Siberian littoral from Viadivostok to Kamchatka, as well as the hinterland of the vast Lena valley which he considered the world's richest undeveloped country. With the downfall of the czars regime, which fostered the bogy of North’ Siberfa as an uninhabitable | place suitable only for political pris- oners. Purington believed the country would be opened to the westerners and made as productive as Canada or Alaska It was his plan to make Okhotsk a great port, with a rallway over the Slanovi range for the transportation of agricultural and mineral products from Yakutsk and the Lena valley for shipment to America. Although ihe fact is not generally realize Okhots he pointed out, is an i free port nine mouths of the year, and is 700 miles ne Seattle than Yokohama. Never Tired Telling of Wonders. Purington never tired telling of the wonders of the Asiatic klondike east of Lake Baikal and the Lena river and north of the fifty-fourth parallel, which he belfeved capable of support- ing a population of several millions ¥ cattle raising and agriculture alone, while its gold and platinum {deposits, he said, seemed unlimited, and _its furs were the nest in the world On Purington’s last visit, in 1915, to the famous Lenskoie min | to which he was consulting engine | he saw sixteen tons of gold ingot | worth approximately 2,000,000, and | representing the mines' output for a | year, turned over for shipment to St Petersburg, The Lena river farms, he asserted, I produced wheat and rre like that of { Canada. and tobacco and even wate elons were grown at Verkhoy |T two degrees within the arctic he wealth of the Siberlan ses | equally great. During the years 11907-11, while Purington was at Niko- {lajevsk, at the mouth of the Amur, | the run of fish numbered ten million. ESEMENOFF REPORTED DEAD IN YOKOHAMA d Cossack ILeader of Anti-Bolsheviks Said to Have Perished in Quake. BS the Assaciated Press. MOSCOW, September 11—A dis- patch recetved here from Peking dat- | ed Saturday Gen. Gregorie | enoff, former commander-in-chief of | the all-Russian armies and Jater anti- { bolshevik leader in Siberia. and a joup of his followers, perished in Yokohama during the earthquake. The dispatch aiso reported that M. Merkuloff, former head of the anti- bolghevik government in Viadivostok, lis dead. | i i Semenoff _sprang into prominence in 1918 when he headed the movement to break the control of ‘the Bolshe- viki along the trans-Siberian railway. He was perhaps the most prominent of the anti-red leaders until his forc- {es and those of other opponents of ! the Moscow soviet were badly brok- en up in the Bolsheviki's sweep east- ward. This sweep resulted in the col- lapse of Admiral Kolchak's all- Russian government at Omsk and was followed by the establishment of a government more or less friendly to government more of fess Triendy to | i I | Many forms of / eczema an« other skin eruptions yield readily to Zonite. Skin troubles induced by sys- temic disorders should re- ceive the attention of a physician. = The dentist that you never dre i the human dentist—one who reallze:.:vh: it means to sit in a dentist’s e rom hurting his patients. . g hp That is my many patients are of the ion. Charges are kept as low accordin, keep fi what chair, and caution to dentist, and same opine as possible. X-Ray Diagnosis and Cas Administered PAINLESS EXTRACTING DR. ADAMS A HUMAN DENTIST 303 7th St. N.W. Across the. Street' From Saks & Company rer Vancouver and | Sem- i D. C, TUESDAY, SERPTEMBER 11, 1923, 'Rusty, Discarded Auto Proves World Champion Rat Catcher | | i | THE RAT-KILLING FLIVVER. Having rendered poor old Dobbin | commercially useless nearly to the |ton golfdom, oInt of making him o cuilosity ‘on | BTéeN-Keeper. happened ‘to cast his Polut of making bim a curiosity o9 {sys ‘npon a rusty, :lons-discardéd the public streets, the automobile has | “Lizzie” he had run back of the fleld | now set out to destroy the business | house for \,"[hhz- ):1" \\Htr”fltdh'"(b?[“fi ¥ leternity. He had read a short time SSRGS LAt by, othor-IivIig aDe; me unfortunate motorist | cies-—dogs and cats. | before of = | Feing asphyxiated by carbon monox- Long after the old bus seems to have gasped its last breath, and you ide gas from just such a mackine. are looking around for a convenient “If it kills humans. why wouldn't it kill those: fiendish rats out there mechanical boneyard that might give you a few dollars for it, your Lizzie soliloquized. Al. “Anyhow, that old | boy 18 going to have one more chance | still has a misslon left to perform in this world. It makes the best at'a longer life.” Used Dirty Plugs. So he loaded e th the B Y o he loaded her up with When it comes to rodent destroy- ing proclivities, both Fido and Thomas dirtiest epark plugs he could find That was to induce the creation of | must take off their hats to Lizzfe. It simply slays them by the thou- more monoxide gas. Then he ran her| ido\\'n the fleld, attached a rubber hose | exha pipe d dropped the| sands, with little or no effort, and | o the exhaust pipe and dropped the even reaches deep down iInto their |mye -rizzie” breathed its deadly gas cavern homes to exterminate them. - Success on Links. Golf had a Jot to do with the dis- into the holes ncbly Al kept doggedly at his experiment covery that the older the bus migh be the better it is as a ratter. For | for several weeks, visiting the holes on two particular greens first and| it was down on the West Potomac golf course that the idea was first | watching the regults carefully. To | his joy he noticed that at the end | tried here, and proved a screaming success of that time not u rat was to be seen around those greems. Since then he has run his death-dealing “Lizzle" Many were the vain words perspir- | ing golfers hurled down the holes of Potomac Park rats as they saw a over the entlre course. and as a re- sult it ie absolutely free of rats “That gas killed them ’'way perfectly good four-bit ball go roll-|in their holes” said A ing into one of the thousand or more rodent front doors that once packed the city's most popular public breathed it and just fell asleep, 2 ready buried where they could not be course. Hundreds of doilars worth of | balls disappeared yearly | Then, one bright day for Washing. Al Kemp, the links' bnoxious. Never lived a dog or a cat that beats my ‘Lizzie' when It comes to ratting; no, sir.’ | and | Mr. Babbitt found his wife and one daughter aboard the steamer Empress of Australia; his wife was ill and had to be carried aboard the vessel. The two daughters were playing in the cor- ridor of the hotel at the time of the | the Moscow at Chita Vladivostok. Semenoff is said to have used the firing squad and the whipping post relentlessly and to have inspired | terror wherever he went. Bravery, plus a reputation for cruelty, madeinet ghock. One of them ran into a in S of | Teonl . miothar. - The Semenoft’. &, group: of , muti-soviet | LIS olhed ls net'kuown, [hut At ix:feared forces, which formerly had been |SRElSdtad L an bank under the command of the late Gen. | —The mahager of the German bank Kappell, occupied Vladivostok and 1”;h nd :‘l Ampatate g 0{" “;! i ized a_new government there, | O00E! S = . & e N MeRulof - Merkuiof | CTder to liberate him, but e died sub-~ was deposed in June, 1922 | seauently In. 1922 Semenoff came o the United_States, and on' his arrival in New York, was arrested in-a civil action, to enforce the payment of a Judgment of about $500,000 entered against him. in. Harbin, Manchuria, for confiscation of private merchan- dise alleged to have .been taken by Semenoff and his forces. The court later dismissed all the charges for lack of jurisdiction. BABBITT’S DAUGHTER BELIEVED QUAKE VICTIM regime | s | By the Associated Press. NAGASAKI, September 11.—E. G. Babbitt, American commercial attache at Tokio, acrived in Tokio on the morn ing of the earthquake, having left his | {wife and two daughters in the Grand | {Company, ldles; the Hattorl Bpinning Company, | states that | stili among the missing. {states OINNING x INDUSTRY HARD HiT| Total Loss Krom Earthquake Eatl-| mated at 1,100,000 Spindiss, JAPANESE S LSTOF U S, DEAD RN AN CABLED OBAKA, Beptember wpan'g cot- | " i Gueiry waeren ‘ie| American Consulate at Kobe ton spinning indusicy waftarad the | st wovers blow of ita history from . e recont enriiauke, The s iws| Sends List of Those Re- ported Killed. I8 ontimated wr 1106000 kpipdies Among the planis dextroyed wers the Dal Nippon Spinning Company, Puke- Kawa, 43,296 spindies; the Hashifia plant, 101,346 apindles; Toyo Spinning | Kuribash!, 46,072 spindies; = 31 plant, Kurlbashi, 65,40% mpin. | The American consulate at Kobe t day cabled the foljowing list of Amer- tcans who have been “reported killed in the Japanese disaster | Miss Doris Babbitt, Mre. Josep! Cocha Brigel, Mrs. Eliot Brunell, M ¥, L. Firth, Mr. Grattan, Mies Jenks and Mrs. L. H. Jinks. Mre. Kempson, Mr. Kirsec Mr. Komor, Mrs. George. Mrs. Kuyper, Mr. T. J. Lafiin, Lewis, Miss Lynch, Mr. and Markell, C. M. Masons, Capt. MacDo ald Mitchell, Mrs. Maurice Mende son, Miss Merritt, Mr. I. Morrisor Edwin Muller, Mr. Patterson, Mr. P rett, Mr. Purington anl two ¢ and governess, Mr. J. Read. Jack Reed, Mrs. Relch, Mr. Roberts, Miss Katherine Robinsos . S. P. Robertson, Mrs. Harry Roo and son, Mr. Rupp, Dr. Smith, Mr Svedenski, Mrs. Thompson, Miss Tolstoy, Mr. L. Viel, Mrs. Wierman and daughter, Miss Winstanley, Ger 1d Zavie Miss Shieler Zavier, Mr. M. Zavier, Mr. V. Zembsch, Mrs. 1. Zembsch, Yokohama, Hpinning 9,768 uplndlen; Nugoya Company, 27744 upindies; Sagam! - Spluning Company, s 76,154 #pindles; the Kanegafuchi Compuny,| 128,340 spindles; the UGl Gas Spirining) ompany's Konagigawa plant, 13,696 spindles; the Koyama plant, 237,520 epindles’ the Oshlage plant, 8412 spindles: the Nisshin Spinning Com- pany, 109,154 spindies. In"‘addition to thé foregoing, the Odawara and Doko Spinning compa- nies are reported to have been d stro. et MANCHURIAN DICTATOR GIVES RICE TO JAPAN By the Acsociated Prens HONOLULU, September 11—A spe- cial wireless dispateh to the Hawali Shinpo from its Tokio correspondent Gen. Chang Tso-Lin, the Manchurian war lord, has donated | 2,500,000 bushels of rice to the earth- Quake relief. The rice will be ship- ped from Mukden immediately. The deaths of Viscount Gen. Yoshimasa Oshima and Baron Seinosuke Go, the latter chairman of the board of the Tokio Stock Exchange, are confirmed. It is also stated that Yoneliro ito, president of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Steamskip Lines, and Prince Nijo, | member of the house of peers, are ISLANDS BELIEVED SAFE. | NEW YORK. ' September 11.—The Premier Yamamoto has cabled Presi- | Commercial Cable Company's statior dent Coolidge the following: “Words|on Peel Island, one of t Bonin fail to convey our heartfelt gratitude | group reported submerged by the Jap- for the humanitarian deed of the gov- | anese earthquake, has been in con- ernment and people of the United |stant touch with the company's sta- aiding the stricken of |tion at Guam, it was announced yes- terday. No messages hav en” re- ceived. it was said, that d ind cate the submersion of of the islan Japan.” Most of the Tokio new said to have resumed pu reduced number Wor an papers are ation with of pages. ANSELL, BISHOP & TURNER, Inc. 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