The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 5, 1923, Page 9

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1923 THE Mussolini’s Challenger Is Met TTALIAN-GREEK DISPUTE CONSIDERED BY LEAGUE Premier’s Claim That Body Is Incom- petent to Consider Matter Is Reiter- ated at poe commission: eit took owing ved and a bre wal from th ROBER rT After an reiterated \ ® speech AGUS COVO the Ttalian articles was brought Delegates to this constitutes o the gage for a f necessary to p uilly and provided by Italy to fulf tions. The Marq Italy's vie matter had two « the league and Lord Rot ii declared Italy's | refusal to accept cei articles of the league covenant providing for | bassadors—and her present in-| need for what Gree peace of/a Q € d Pr 5 am had scarcely regarded is oatd thi Europ». country accepted responsibil r The council decided to resume on| the slaying ot the ‘Italian commis Thursday consideration of the/sioners, but ure of Corfu Greco-Italian dispute over the slay-|and other — pr o* mens Ing of five Italian commissioners at j taken by ers for Janina and subsequent Punitive the league to ¢ matt Strange Ocean Currents | Disturb Pacific Ships Damage Is Done to San Pedro Har- bor; Huge W Waves Agitate Sea e $50,000 t} were liberated ito form a new ;down, or e|poured in that direction they the rjrushed to save the prince regent. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5.- ‘5—The Pacific ocean is belng agitated by strange currents and swept by huge waves following the Japanese earthquakes. Fifty thousand doliars’ damage has been done to ships in the har- bor at San Pedro by the extraordl: Bary seas, it is estimated. 5 yeasel wirelemsed that she ‘been carried 20 miles off ber Course by & strenge current. Pedro, The damage in t there was causnl by of hawsers, some 12 inches thick, | which proved too weak to hold some of the ships to their moorings. Some seamen say that the four tidal waves which struck Southern California coast Sunday night, fol lowed by huge surges and the en suing heavy seas, are but forerun- ners of @ large: Ural wave which ty racing across the rex from Japan So far, however, no such phenomena @oatilaren perished in the ruins, according to stories of sur-| The strange behavior of the sea fs principally noticeable at San|has been reported by whips af sea. * 6 es» » # * * HERE’S MORE ABOUT U. S. NAVAL HOSPITAL STARTS ON PAGE 1 and a Mrs. Mantel and her two daughters. A French orphanage was destroyed and 16-sisters and 160 vivors. The French consul general was killed, as was former Mex- | ican Consu! General Henrique. | One official message to the Japanese legation here says | that the loss of life among foreigners in Yokohama was | believed to be heavy, but extremely small in Tokyo. | The following Americans are known to have been in one or the other of the stricken cities on Friday before the quake: | Mrs. Rupert Hughes, wife of the well-known author. | Roy Elliott of the General Electric company. | G. W. Mundele of the United States Steel Products Co.| E. Babbitt, assistant commercial attache, and wife. | Mrs. Harry Roat and son. Evelyn Mantell, San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Fagan and two daughters. Fagan is connected with the International General) Electric. There was to have been a meeting of Y. M. C. A. teachers} at the Myogi summer resort near Karuicawa on Saturday and a number of Americans were to attend. The district escaped the worst of the shocks, however. The following} are believed to have been there: Arthur J son, William Erskine, George Swan, Will-| iam Vories, s Peake, Howard Outerbridge, G. E, Tru- man and George Patterson. + Charles Potter of the Union Oil company of San Francisco! apparently was in Yokohama. | t is believed here that Professor Corkerel of the Colorado university and his wife are safe aboard the Empress of | Australia in the harbor. A | * > OSAKA, Sept. quake casualties in Tokyo is jured. 5.—(4:40 a. m.)—The latest estimate of | 15,000 killed and 100,000 in-| smoking gun and pulled a badge) from his pocket. “What in hell are you doing?” Brewer asked. "I am an officer,” showing his badge. "You are a damn poor one," said Minnis, armed with a seatch war-| Brewer, releasing his grip on Jones. | rant, arrived to raid the place.| Sowers was rushed to the hos-| Sowers, who had been to the shack | Pital, where he later gave his yer-| before, was the first to enter. sion of the affair, which differed When he saw a man dressed in|considerably from that of Jones.| overalls pawing over a pile lof sugar |Sowers sald he entered the sha sacks, he said “Stick ‘em up," thea|and asked the man to put up his tired a shot into the cfiling ‘o|hands, and that he fired into the| hasten compliance with the com-|celling when the individual hesitated, mand. Instead of putting His hands| Jones said he told Sowers he wax into the alr, the man, Phtrolman|# police officer, but Sowers sald, “I Jones, pulled his gun njid shot {don't give a damn who you sre, put Sowers thru the fleshy paft of the|up your hands.” Jones then said he left arm, and the abdomen,|the bul-|fired ot Sowers, not knowing who let glancing from a rib. he was, Sowers staggered back, and ran| Sheriff Matt Starwich on Wednes- ASI TR TTT ee HERE’S MORE ABOUT DEPUTY «~ STARTS ON PAGE 1 - RIE ES | sald Jones, |vice to fly over the stricken city. idestruction there, ‘crumbling of the naval hospital under the first impacts of |tumbling house to the royal chapel, where he worshipped |while the earth heaved all about him and the crash of from the shack holding His stom. ach, Deputy Sherifts Ray | Murphy and Roy Horr and Deputy Prank Brewer were approaching the shack. Patrolman Jones shot twice! in thelr direction and the two Heputies, Horr and Murphy fired pack at him, Deputy Frank Brewer, the dean of the deputies on Sherite star. wich’s staff, grabbed Joned by the throat and hurled him agolinat the wall, The policeman dropped his day said that it was a case of both men heing too anxious to use thelr | guns instead of their tongues, “It| they'd shot-off thele mouths instead of their guns, no one would have been hurt,” the sheriff sald. Search warrants: for the place were Issued to both the elt county men by Judge C, C, Dalton Tuesday. Neither Brewer, who was in charge of the Jes, nor Jones of the city police court knew that two warrants had been iasued for HERE'S MORE ABOUT DISASTER DESCRIPTION STATES ON PAGE 1 upon the other, The little built to with tand shocks with their dovetailed walls and ceilings, swayed as in a mighty wind. Families huddled under their beam Larger buildings, of firm and less pliable construction, came crashing to earth Great Asukusa Tower Falls |Burying Hundreds in Ruins The great tower at Asukusa park fell, burying hundreds beneath it. The brightly decorated shops and booths of the park took fire. Hundreds were killed or injured as they were buried beneath wreckage, or fought for safety trampling upon each other Prisons, hospitals and other institutions were shaken apart, or fired. Criminals who were not killed or injured, Invalids were left helpless in the great dis- Japanese dwelling aster, Streets became impassable. Gas and water mains burst. There was no means of combatting the rapidly spreading conflagration. Premier Yamamoto was meeting with those he had called government, The city was being shaken burned about them, but the cabinet was com- pleted and the task of rescue immediately undertaken. Indescribable Terror Gripped Tokyo During Crest of Disaster The union station withstood the shock, but found there were thousands no means of leaving the stricken capital. Railroad tracks were torn up. All telegraph wires were down. Tokyo was isolated, | Indescribable terror gripped the city. As night came on the great fire spread, sweeping thru and destroying such ouses as remained standing and turning the debris into a great field of flames. | The military took control. z00, were shot. were killed. The imperial palace liberated from| Suspects | Wild animals, Some looting was reported. was badly damaged. The military Buildings which it was feared might communicate fire to the palace were dynamited. The roar of explosions, the din of collapsing buildings, the rush of flames added to the terrors of the scene. Hundreds, Crazed by Terror, Leaped Into Sumidi River The heat of the burning city became all but unbearable. Hundreds, crazed by terror, leaped into the Sumidi river. | Others died in their homes, or their bodies, strewing the| streets, were thrown back into the flames. Burial was impossible. Buddhist and Shinto priests, clad in their heavily brocaded or white and purple robes, chanted prayers for the dead as they were consigned to the flames or piled in the streets. From Kamagura came word of Prince Matsukata being | |badly crushed when his house collapsed. At least three members of the royal family were killed or injured, and in addition to royalty, Japan’s merchant princes and others of means who escaped death or injury, became helpless refugees along with the humblest of the} poor, in the face of the disaster. Ene entire working forces of many industries were wiped | oul Numerous incidents are reported of mills and buildings —such as the government printing office—collapsing and/| crushing practically all occupants to death. Roads con- necting Tokyo with outlying points were torn up. | Destruction at Yokohama | Proved More Disastrous Trees were felled. Then airplanes were pressed into ser-| But so dense was the) smoke arising that they were forced to fly high above the! }scene of the catastrophe and the aviators could determine | but little of what was transpiring beneath them. At Yokohama the scenes of Tokyo were duplicated. The| however, was accentuated by an even more devastating fire. The great wharves of the Japanese | post were destroyed. Shipping in the harbor took fir The quake was followed by tidal waves. Ships which might} have escaped were hurled back upon the shore as the giant seas arose and flooded miles of the coast line. Even after escaping from the burning capital, refugees were not safe. Ten thousand of them took refuge in a} great military compound south of Tokyo. The compound;}| no longer in use by the army, was surrounded by deep/ water and access to it was by means of wooden bridges. | Fire, having no connection with the conflagration they had \left behind, broke out, consumed the bridges, destroyed ths | compound and burned to death practically the entire 10, 000 | | refugees, who had no chance to escape. | |Many American Lives Are |Feared Lost in Wreckage From the first foreign stragglers to reach the outside world came news of the fate of Americans and Europeans trapped in the blackened cities of Tokyo and Yokohama. Many American lives are feared to have been lost in the the shocks of Saturday. hospital was injured. Other Americans who were at Mount Hakcte and at Nikko are feared to have been killed or injured. At the latter resort were the emperor and empress of | Japan. Their villa was shaken by the quake and they nar- rowly escaped with their lives. Immediately after they were safe their first thought was for their eldest son, Pringe tegent. The prince was in Tokyo at the imperial palace. It has been learned since that when the first quakes! shook the city and the palace, the prince hurried from his The American coun of the buildings in the royal park sounded above the rumblings jof the earthquake. Later, the prince returned to his house and was escorted | | from the city by imperial guards, sale HERE’S MORE ABOUT SUMMARY STARTS ON PAGE 1 and will require months for re- | pairs, Japanese troops are on the march, headed for Tokyo to take charge of the capltal-until some order can be restored. San Francisco reports tell of strange tidal waves and currents wttll surging In the wake of Satur. j day's upheavals. One ship was swept 20 miles off its course, the same place, according to their statements. Sowers was married two weeks ago to Miss Josephine Provost and had moyed into his new home at 2411 Fifth ave. W. His parents, Mr. and Mm, M. K. Sowers, reside at 3665 Alblon place, Jones was chief of police of Georgetown prior to tho time the department there was absorbed by the Seattle police. His home is at 316 Brandon st. Seattle Youth Is Safe at Shanghai of Senttle, son Injured Rushed to Shanghai Hospital SHANGHAT, Sept, 6 hundred injured in the Jn John Leo Brady, dé Maj. and Mrs Raymond ihrady, 1027 Belleyuo Court, was re- jhorted safe in the Orient today hrady was on board the liner Prest thent Madixon and was not at Yoko: | earthaua being brought here ) Japanese {aboard the ner Empress of Canada, .|which 4 approaching Shanghat, Hoxpitals at Kobe are reported to be full and unable to eare for the suf: forers. SEATTLE STAR FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE - THURSDAY CANDY SPECIAL Chocolate-Dipped Peanuts or Dates Special 3 5c Pound ELICIOUS, fresh peanuts and dates, covered with rich chocolate. Special Thursday, at 35¢ pound. 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