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Evening star., 1923-09-10
VICTIMS BURNED
IN PILES At TOXIC
Heroic Efforts Undertaken to
Make City Fit for Habi-
tation Again.

By the Associat ted Press.
TOXIC, September (Delayed.-
The work OF cleaning up the capital
is already well under way. At Sum
mida, in the northwestern part of the
city, where many thousands sought
refuge when the flames threatened to
wipe out the city, 10000 bodies have
been cremated. In most cases identi-
fication is impossible, and coroner's
inquests are being held by the whole
sale.
The sanitary situation is stin most
threatening, although the authorities
are doing everything possible TO pre-
vent the outbreak of an epidemic.
Foreign and Japanese food supplies
are arriving hourly, and the water
situation in the city is much i'm
proved.
Minor earthquake shocks are con-
tinuing. The Oshima volcano, near
Toxic, is also in eruption.
Roads leading from the capital are
crowded with refugees. In every di-
rection all classes of homeless, carry
ing their few belongings in crude
packs. are vending their way from
the stricken districts. Great crowds
the suburban stations.
japanese destroyers are Tescuing
many of the homeless residents of
the Sagami bay districts. where thou
sands hau their summer homes. The
destruction there is said to be great
Evening star., 1923-09-10
10000 ARE SAVED
BY LYING IN WATER
Flames in Yokohama Drove
People to Lake-Accuse
Koreans as GhoulS.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, September 1o.-A dis
patch to the Daily Express from
Shanghai says:
Among the stories from passengers
on board the steamer Empress OF
Australia, which has arrived here
from Yokohama, is one obtained
from two woman residents of Shang-
hal, who were spending their holiday
at Dzushi, twenty miles from Yoko-
hama. They say they were rushing
toward the outskirts of the city, and
saw Koreans rob people nd then cut
their throats. A party f Japanese
firemen rounded up many of these
ghouls and killed them.
"A gruesome sight was witnessed
in Yokohama. The passengers in a
street car all were electrocuted and
were sitting in the car in natural
attitudes.
IS. F. Murphy, jr.. of San Francisco,
who was staying in the Imperial
Hotel in Toxic, saved himself By
diving through window. He motor
ed to Yokohama.
Duncan Boyne, travelling auditor
for the Standard Oil Company, said
the earth dropped vertically three
feet during the quake. Cracks large
enough to hold q motor car opened
in the streets. He said he and others
fed to Yokohama Park, which was
flooded. This fact saved the lives of
10000 persons hemmed in by flames.
we lay in the water and covered
our faces with mud he said MANY
persons were forced to leap into the
bay with the flames licking at their
backs. The low tide enabled them
to wade out thirty feet-far enough
to save themselves from being ere.
| mated"
Evening star., 1923-09-10
HARBOR SEA Of FIRE,
RESULT Of QUAKE
Oil Tanks Explode at Yoko-
suka-American Hospital
Hurled From Bluff.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. September, 10.--At the
first shock of the earthquake the
great oil tanks on the hillside above
the Yokosuka cable station exploded
and millions of tons of oil swept
down upon the city. turning the har-
bor into a mass of flames. The walls
of the Negeshi prison collapsed and
5000 convicts were released.
The most desperate of these sought
to profit by looting ana numbering
the disabled. Hastily formed bodies
of citizens, however, hunted out the
miscreants and eXacted a summary
death penalty. The American hospi-
tai is reported to have been hurled
from the bluffsto the cemetery below,
tearing open the earth and eXhuming
the bodies of many of those inferred
there.
Scenes Rival Buddhist He'll"
The stories of the earthquake as
narrated by eyewitnesses depict
scenes rivaling IN horror the popular
representations of the Buddhist hell.
Business men were about to leave
their offices in Yokohama at the close
OF Saturday mornings work, when,
without warning and with a tre-
mendous roar, the ground heaved UP
four or five feet and then dropped
back again. Houses on the bluff
were precipitated headiong into the
city. The ground rocked, heaved and
swayed like the waves of the sea
Fugitives. fleeing from the falling
buildings, found their way blocked
by huge aping holes, some OF them
large enough to admit a horse and
wagon.
Rising Water Adda to Peril.
Peril was added by the rising
water from the water mains which
burst everywhere this. with fire,
blocked all the exists from the city.
Hundreds sought to escape from a
aery death by rushing toward the
Mote Machi canal. while some. who
endeavored to cross on wooden light
ers, were overtaken by blazing oil
which flowed from the exploded
tanks and met terrible death. Still
others, panic-stricken. flung them
selves into the water and met an
equally dreadful fate. The canal soon
was checked with floating bodies.
People leaped into the sea in their
frenzy to escape the deluge of red
hot cinders from the blazing ruins.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
CHINESE AIDS JAPAN.
Deposed Manchu Emperor Gives
S1o5,O for Relief.
nrthn Assnctatad Press-

By the Associated Press.
PEkING, September l0.-The de-
posed Manchu Emperor Of China has
dons ted $1,000 and q collection of
curios worth 100000 for the relief
Of the earthquake sufferers In Japan.
The donation included the famous
pearl beads of the empress dowager.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
DRESS SILK SHORTAGE,
QUAKE RESULT, DENIED
Manufacturers Head Says Stocks
on Hand Sufficient, Warns
of Avoiding Panic
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, September 10.--David
y. Mossesohn. executive chairman of
the Associated Dress Industries of
America, urged dress manufacturers
TO avoid all feeling of panic or anX-
iety over the situation created by the
possible destruction of much of this
years silk output in the japanese
catastrophe.
1t was the belief of the executive
council OF the Associated Dress In
dustries. Mr.. Mossesohn said, tnat
stocks of raw silk and made-up broad
silks in this country were sufficient
| to take care of the needs of the en-
tire dress industry Of America for
many months.
If retailers are asked any material
increases in the prices of dresses or
dered, Mr.. Mossesohn suggested. they
should make careful inquiry to as
sure themselves that such advances
were legitimate and were not due &c
| condition which made 1t possible to
| take unfair advantage of a customer
Evening star., 1923-09-10

A new portable sand-heating unit
for street paving work has been de-
signed. Power is supplied from an
overhead street-car line
Evening star., 1923-09-10
KlRJASS0FF FAMILY
TRAPPED IN FLAMES
Circumstances of Death of Ameri-
can Consul and Wife
Revealed.
gv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PEkING, September Reuters
dispatch from Osaka quotes the
Governor of Kanagawa prefecture.
which includes Yokohama. as saying
that the American consul. Max d
kirjassoff. and his wife took refuge
in the prefectural offices after the
earthquake and were trapped there
by the fire which Immediately swept
the city.
Many instances Of heroism are re-
ported from Yokohama. Japanese
servants, 1t is said, refused to leave
their foreign employers and their
children, preferring to die with them
rather than seek their own safety.
Japanese cooks and chauffeurs
heroically helped in the work of
rescue. risking their own lives time
and again in aiding their employers
families to escape from the danger
zone.
A story is told of one coolie who
made numerous trips into burning
buildings to rescue women and chill
dren. He finally fell in a flaming
house to die in the blazing ruins.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
RELIEF MEASURES
SET WORLD RECORD
Japanese Governments Fund
for Restoration of Cities
Is $265, ,OOo, 600.

OSAKA, September 10.--The Japanese
government has appropriated 6So'00o'ooO
ven. approximately S265,0Oo,O0O, Tor
relief work. This decision by the cab
met at Saturdays sitting represents
the greatest relief measure in the his
tory of world disasters. The approval
Of the privy council and the prince
regent is all that is necessary TO per-
nit the carrying out OF the immense
project OF recognizing the devastated
areas and rehabiIitating millions Of
homeless and unemployed people.
Already large sums have been appro-
priated from the governments surplus
and it Is intended to draw upon the
national exchequer for further amounts,
should the necessity arise. In an
emergency the government is planning
to use the 120, 000.00o-yen minting
profits as a last resort
Foreign relief is pouring in. pre-
saying remarkably quick recovery.
in view of the extent Of the tragedy.
II is officially reDorted now that more
than 100000 buildings in Toxic nave
been destroyed and more than half
million people are homeless.
L. 8. Student Killed.
Donald s. Herr Of Cleveland. Ohio.
was killed at Niyanoshita when a
hlIl slid into a gorge carrying along
shop in which he was purcha sins
curios at the time. Joseph s. Ruble,
also of Cleveland who was Herr's
friend and schoolmate at Pennsyl-
Tania State College. had a miraculous
escape he was pinned to the ground
py a telephone pole, but was only
slightly injured. The landslide did
not affect thA ground where he had
been standing
Hugh Horne. acting commercial
secretary. and w. Haigh. vice consul.
mama, are still missing and 1t is
feared they are dead Others of the
consulate are safe.
Tke first foreign refugees have ar
rived at Kobe from Kamakura. a
seaside resort, where it is reported
IO00 japanese and several foreigners
were killed. The first quake de-
stroyed the beautiful Kaihin hotel
ana a large portion of the village.
which is an ancient capital OF Japan.
the hotel collapsed. Only one for
eigner, Jules Hassen. a famous Dam
ish artists. was killeG; he was crush ed
beneath the debris. Many others
were pinned under the ruins, but
were eXtricated.
Mrs. Wood Is Safe.
Mrs Junius Wood. wife of a Chi
cago newspaper correspondent, walk
ed across the country to the coast
and was rescued by Japanese war
ships.
The main Toxic bridge and the
interior Of the Yokohama specie bank,
where thousands rushed for safety.
proved death traps. when the bridge
collapsed and the bank caught fire.
Indications are that for the whole
devastated area the death roll exceeds
100000
Launches are now engaged in trans
portation service between Yokoha-
ma and Toxic, and trains are run
ming regularly between Kauagawa,
which is a suburb OF Yokohama. and
Shinagawa. which is a suburb of
Toxic The government is making
other rapid strides in restoring traf-
nc.
Messages of coincidence from ~vari-
Gus governments continue 10 arrive
and the spontaneous response to the
appeal for aid is a great source of
-
Evening star., 1923-09-10
.RUHR FIGHT NEARS
.END,SAYS PO|NCARE
Premier Thinks German Re.
siStance Is Now at Point
of Collapse.
~ tho AxsocIatAd prass

By the Associated Press.
DAMVILLERS, France, September
1o.-Speaking at the Inauguration of
a monument to the war dead yester-
day, Premier Poincare said that the
resistance in the Ruhr which Germans
had counted on to discourage the
French had been overcome little by
little, and now was beginning to
collapse altogether.
The speech of the premier. after
having covered the special object of
the days assemblage. dealt with re-
Hans Won Raumer, German minister
of economies, and DIR. Rudolf Hilfer-
ding. German minister of finance.
Cure I'm Own Hands.
NJ. Poincare quoted HilSerding and
Won Raumer as saying that Ger
many's financial recovery was pos
sible only when the struggle in the
they control the cure. They have
only TO cease throwing billions OF
marks into the Ruhr to encourage un-
employment and let the free popuia-
tion follow their own incllnations. as
they only wish TO work and reach an
understanding with us for the de-
liveries due"
To Chancellor Stresemann's pro-
posals of other guarantees than the
Ruhr for payment. NJ. Poincare re-
piled with the French equivalent for
the proverb that a bird in the hand
is worth two In the bush. The pro-
posed guarantees. he declared, would
add nothing to the general mortgage
which the treaty of Versailles gives
the allies on all properly of the Ger
man states.
I'VE prefer the positive pledges we
hold TO any theoretical rights" said
NJ. Poincare, land we refuse to let
them go for something which might
be excellent on paper, but the product
of which might escape u.s.
Agreement of Industry.
DR.. Stresemann, n. Poincare de-
clared. had insisted that close col
laboration between Complementary
industries of France and Germany
would be an excellent preface to a
settlement of reparations and to a
definite code of peace. The German
chancellor. he added, was putting the
cart before the horse. Former Chancel-
lor Cuno last December had offered tc
prepare agreements between the Ger
mineral owners to their mutual ad-
vantage but even the French, who
were most deeply interested in such
proposals. agreed that they must wait
until the French government had OBJ
tained positive results from the
reprations problem. said NJ. Poincare
'"When we see Germany sincerely
resolved to settle the reparations ac-
count and also give us for our security
something more than promises" de-
clared NJ. Poincare, I'VE shall con-
slider the possibility of economic
treaties. But let Germany begin by
changing her behavior and at last
Evening star., 1923-09-10
Toxic Dentist Finishes Work
ObIiuiOus of Disaster to Cit,

building. one of the highest in
Toxic. luckily escaped. The
structure did not collapse. It is
now. standing. but leans at an
angle. The correspondent was
told, by man today that in one
of its upper stories a dentist was
fixing the teeth of a patient Both
raced for the ground floor. When
.they felt the building had steadied
Itself they returned and the dentist
finished his job. which was done
with both men in total ignorance
of the catastrophe around them.
V The casualties in Yokohama are
estimated at so per cent of the
population.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
PALACE POWER PLANT
USED TO LIGHT TOXIC
Crown Prince Gives Up Palace
illumination for Sake
of Sufferers.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC VIA OSAKA ASAHI. Sep
tember 10.-Those districts of Toxic
that escaped destruction by fire and
flood were in total darkness, cut off
from electric lights, until Prince
Regent Hirohito commanded that the
broken conduits be connected up with
the large private lighting plant at
the Akasaka palace. his home in the
capital. When informed that this
would deprive the palace of its regu-
lar lighting, Hirohito is reported as
saying:
Don't mind me- The work of re-
Iieveing the suiferers comes first"
Evening star., 1923-09-10
POST CHAPLAIN H0N0RED
Army and Navy Union Gives Ma
tionaI Office to D. c. Man.

Sergt. Edward w. Hoban, a veteran
of the Indian frontier wars, who makes
his home at the United States Soldiers
Home in this city and who is chaplain
OF the Presidents Own Garrison. No.
104, Army and Navy Union, L. S. A.
was reelected Saturday as national
chaplain OF the National Corps at the
thirty-fifth annual encampment of the
organization in session at Pittsburgh,
Fa. Miss Margaret r. Naylor, yoeman
F. a past vice commander of the local
organization, was elected to member
ship in the national council OF admin
istration.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
~ Tie Associated Press.

BY, TIE Associated Press.
osAKA,< September. 1o.-Among
the stories of wonderful escapes
in the Japanese earthquake is that
of woman who was taking
bath on the second floor Of q
house, The house collapsed, all
except the bathroom. and the
woman got out of the window and
slid down TO the street, where a
passing japanese gave her XII
mono.
The inmates of the Marunouclli
Evening star., 1923-09-10

showing good will. Up to the present,
we have failed to note any appreci-
able modification.
The key has changed. which after
all Is progress, but the song re-
mains the same. Germany is at the
GROSS roads If she wished to be
saved there still is time. II sae per-
sists in her former methods she will
involve herself in catastrophes for
which the responsibility will not fail
on us.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
Peak OF Volcano
Is FLattened as
. Result OF Quake
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, September IA
news agency dispatch from Osaka
states that the summit of Mount
Fuji. apparently as a result of the
quake, has undergone a most no.
ticeable change. the peak now ,ap-
pearfng much fatter than formerly.
1t was also stated that all TOXIC
colleges were destroyed with the
exception of Waseda and Keio
universities.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-17

From the ancient mansion, with its low-pitched ceilings, steep staircases, and thick outer walls, a constant stream of news, gathered from the re- motest corners of the earth, is sent flowing back to the outside world. The stately bedrooms are now occu- pied by editors busy with typewriters and tape machines; the ceilings are marked with a network of black wires; and in the garden" is housed the traffic department of the Agency.
 Office is Expanded
 Under the reorganization completed by Sir Roderick Jones, the present chairman and managing director of the Agency, Reuters head office has been expanded to 14 departments and branches. requiring greatly enlarged facilities for the agencys work.
 At the invitation of Sir Roderick Jones, MT. John Buchan partner in the great publishing house of Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd, has joined the active management of Reuters, as deputy managing director. MT. Bu- chan, who had a brilliant career at Oxford. was the principal correspon- dent of the London Times in France during the World war.
 It is announced also that Sir Ed ward Grigg. who has had a distin- career in diplomacy and jour nalism. having been private secretary to former Prime Minister Lloyd
New Britain herald., 1923-07-17
WORKING OVER REPLY
British Cabinet Members Devoting Their Weekend to Devising Proper Wording of Message.

By The Associated Press ..
 London. July 17.-Members of the British cabinet will give undivided thought over the weekend to Great Britains reply to the German memo randum regarding separations.
 Premier Baldwin Is spending Satur- day and Sunday at Chequers Court and Foreign Secretary Curzon is going into seclusion at hls suburban retreat It is now hoped to have the complete draft finished by the latter part of the coming week.
 Premier Baldwin Is expected either on Monday or Tuesday to reply in the affirmative to J. Ramsay MacDonald's query In the house of comm ons this week as to whether a copy of the re- ply would be communicated to the United States government,
 The best manner in which to phrase Great Britains acceptance of the plan for an international body of experts to appraise Germany's financial strength as advanced originally by the Ameri- can secretary of state is giving the cabinet members good deal of thought.
 The cabinet also is canvassing the question as to how far it is expedient in the draft reply to touch upon Ger passive resistance.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-17

guns. four 4-inch and a number of smaller guns. Besides torpedo arma- ment, the new vessel is fitted with two hangars, enabling her to carry 20 airplanes, which will be raised to the taking off decks by means of electric elevators.
 Another advance in aerial efficiency is the construction. for the British air ministry, of huge seaplanes with a speed of 125 miles an hour.
 One of the latest types has a wing span of 1l2 feet and carries nearly two tons of gasoline. It is fitted with twin Condor engines of 1900 horse power each, driving twin propellers.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-17
AIR ATTACKS FROM
 GREAT ATTITUDES
England Laying Reels of Huge Airships to Carry Smaller Planes

London, July 17.-Keels are now being laid in Great Britain for huge rigid airships which will hover above the clouds with number of small fighting machines on board ready to launch at foe, says an aeronautical expert in the London Daily Chronicle. The task of these new machines in war, he says. will be to carry aloft to immense heights and to transport, If necessary, thousands of miles, squad rons of swift, deadly, steel-built 'at- tack planes" These will be launched from high above the clouds, and will rush at 200 miles an hour and more earthward to harry other aircraft and raid the commerce of the seas.
 Will Have Power
 'rrhe airships will have the power. lacking in small machine" the writer says. "of long distance flights at great altitude, while, on the other hand, the small planes they carry will be able to outf1y and outright any machine laden for long journey.
 Tn the case of specially organized attacks by these formidable air-borne fighters on planes carried at sea by mother ships, the tactics of the craft sent darting down from airships will be to dive pell-mell on their surfac- launched opponents and strike them deadly blows before they can gain the ' antage point of altitude.
 Height in air-warfare is the key to victory, and these airship- carrier fighters will have the advantage of being in a position to choose their own moment for swoop upon enemy craft climbing from the earth'
 Aerial Harbors"
 The Chronicles contributor says that France, Italy and the United States all show a growing recognition of the importance of mobile aerial harbors' for swarms of fighting planes. The United States already has laid the keel of an airship which will launch single-seater fighters and pick them up again while the mother craft Is travelling at full speed. The first American flying aerodrome," he adds, will be ready to take the air this summer. It will carry as a nor nal load 12 fighters of the latest type. |
 Aircraft Transport Great Britain has completed the | first seagoing vessel in the world de- signed specially for the transport of | aircraft. She has, displacement of | '0,950 tons and carries seven 6-inch |
New Britain herald., 1923-07-17
BRITISH JOURNAL
 LEAVES OLD SITE
With Moving of Reuters News Agency Ancient Landmark Goes

London, July 1.-The announce ment that Reuters have acquired a great modern office building on the Embankment, and soon would trans fer there the main network of their worldwide news activities now radiat- ing from the group of quaint old buildings, Nos. 23-24-25 Old Jewry, in the city tolls another change in Lon don's famous old newspaper land marks.
 Old Jewry. described by historians as the center of medieval London at one time contained the palace oc- cupied by King Richard III, and the building at "A. Old Jewry. advertised more than one hundred years ago as a comfortable and desirable dwelling house with garden" has been the very heart of Reuters for many years.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-17

ably lower than their sisters from the peninsula.
 The Yucatans discussed birth con- trol with great frankness, in spite of the alarmed protests of the other dele gates, and then expounded the facile wedding and divorce methods of their state.
 Their arguments, however, failedgto induce the convention to adopt other than the customary resolutions for the enfranchisement of women.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-17

London and Swindon, distance of v IA miles. which 1t covers in 75 minutes. travelling at the rate of, 61.8 miles an hour.
 This Is one of five trains announced in the summer schedules of the English railroads. that will make bet ter than a mile minute on regular runs. The longest run is between London and Bath, 106B miles. which Is made at the rate of 61.1 miles an hour.
 Another feature of the summer train schedules is that daily nonstop trains are run between London and all the important cities and summer resorts in England, which are de- signed to allow the worker to live at the seaside and continue to work in London.
New Britain herald., 1923-07-17
STARTLE MEXICO CITY
Women Delegates to Convention Throw Their Sedate Mexican Sis ters By Their Frankness.

Mexico City, July 17.-Yucatan's delegation of women to the recent of the Pan-American League of Women, in this city created of an uproar, Yucatan is socialistic and very advanced. and while some of the women delegates from other states call themselves pro- gressives, they were geared consider
New Britain herald., 1923-07-17

George, has jointed the board of di- rectors of Reuters. Mr. s. Cary Clem- ents, for many years manager of the Agency, also has been added to the board of directors.