Evening star., 1923-09-05

, were reported to be operating efficiently
| through Manila, Shanghai and Nagasaki
| to PAGES in Japan as close to the de
vaStated areas as Kobe and Osaka. The
! main cable between Bonin and Toxic,
| however, is broken, apparently eighty
miles from Toxic.
! Vice Consul Starts for Scene.
! Vice Consul L. Clark Creager has
! been dispatched from Kobe to Yoko-
hama on a relief ship to obtain def
mite facts regarding the disaster
| there and report on the casualties
! can consul at Kobe informed the State
! Department in a second message to-
! day. He added that the Shipping
! Board steamer West Orowa has been
| diverted to Yokohama with food.
I! medical supplies and relief workers.
| The American representative at
! Kobe said he would advise the State
| Department regarding the welfare OF
! Americans in Yokohama as soon as
he could obtain information. He said
/ he had wired Shanghai asking the
American Red Cross officials there to
i rush physicians and nurses to Yoko-
hama, where the need is said to be
| urgent.
ships Near Yokohama.
Before night fall IL Is believed near
ly a score of relief ships will have
reached Yokohama. The faster units
of the American Asiatic fleet should
| have dropped anchor outside the har-
| Dor early today and it is believed at
! the Navy Department that already
! medical supplies and tents have been
! landed In addition the two Army
transports. Meigs and Merritt. are un,
derstood to have cleared Manila. filled
| to capacity with food, tents and more
/ medical supplies.
! Scores of American fighting craft
! and commerce vessels are now load
1 lSria
plies and before the end OF the week
! it is expected they. too. Will land
| tons of necessary equipment In the
devastated areas for fighting famine
| and pestilence. the two things that
are most feared now that the quakes
! have ceased and fires in Yokohama
and Toxic are reported toe hav
| burned themselves out
Ship Ready te Sail.
Secretary DENLY notified President
Coolidge today that at the request
of the president of the chamber or
| Grating with the Red Cross, the sup,
| ply ship Vega, now at that port. had
| been made ready to go to Japan with
cargo of foodstuffs.
The Navy Department has also or
dered the supply ship Arctic of the
| a cargo of fresh meat. dry provisions
! and medical supplies, inc Arctlc
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! Yokohama.
The Shipping Board is rushing
preparations to meet demands OF the
Red Cross for ships to carry supplies
to Japan, Chairman Farley an
nounced.
! Hold Vessels Ready.
In order to avoid confusion and to
I render the most efficient service, he
said, vessels will be held in readiness
! at their present locations to await
definite orders to call for cargoes al
! specified ports on request OF the Red
! W. B. Keene. vice president In
charge of traffic of the Emergency
/ Fleet Corporation. said eight cargo
ships, averaging 5000 tons each' were
available at Pacific coast ports aho
other ships laid up there could be
! "broken out" very quickly II needed.
Five to Sail Soon.
In addition five passenger cargo
vessels are due to sail west from
Pacific ports on their regular sched-
ules during the next month. The
| President Taft sails tomorrow, the
, President Cleveland September 20.
President Jefferson September % and
! the President Pierce October 4. They
are due in Yokohama at dates ran g
| ing from September 81. for the jack
son, to October 10, for the Pierce.
Between September and october
| eleven freighters are due to sail.
arriving between September 2s and
October %.
At various points in the Pacific are
seven passenger cargo ships of the
| President type, and twenty-nine cargo
ships, many of which will be available
| for relief service. The President
Jefferson, the board announced, has
already sailed from Yokohama to
Kobe with refugees. and the west
1 Orowa a cargo vessel was diverted
at Manila to carry supplies to Yoko-
hama.
Message to Embassy.
The Japanese embassy received to-
| day its first word from the home gov
| ernment. 1t announced the forma-
| ton of the new cabinet. essentially
as carried in press dispatches, with
| Count Yamamoto as premier and
minister of foreign affairs.
message to the Japanese embassy be-
cause it was signed by Premier
Yamamoto and was dispatched the
day after the earthquake. indicating
to embassy officials that no harm had
befallen the premier.
nounced in early press advices. with
two exceptions. Minister of Educa-
tion Okano and Minister of Justice
j Hiranuma, as designated for those
portfolios in the earlier press advices.
were not mentioned. whereas Minis
Den was given also the portfolio of
Justice, and Minister Of Communica-
tions Inukai also was given the
| portfolio of education. Both Okano and
Hiranuma have been reported in
press dispatches as missing after the
earthquake.
MANY AMERICANS SAFE.