JAPANESE DISASTER.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1923, Page 2

JAPANESE DISASTER.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AMERICAN HELP. WASHINGTON, September 3. Tiro Government has summoned the Japanese Ambassador to confer regarding relief plans. LIGHTHOUSES USELESS. SHANGHAI, September 3. A Japanese naval wireless reports that the Navy Department buildings are safe at Nagasaki. A wireless from the Koreamaru says that all lighthouses in the Bay of Tokio have been rendered useless at night time, and navigation is dangerOils. MORE EARTHQUAKES. SHANGHAI. Sept. 3 There have been two new earthquakes at Tokio to-day. They crazed the people. The population are now fleeing from the citv and are choking all the roads.

TOKIO DEATH ROLL. SHANGHAI. Sept. 4. A wireless message from Osako, Japan, reports that tho Italian and French Embassies at Tokio were destroyed. Tlio Japanese Minister for the Navy estimates the fatalities in Tokio city alone at- 150,000. It is reported that Yiscount Takahashi and 20 other of the principal members of the Seiyukni were killed, while engaged in a conference on Saturday. About 40 foreigners also perished in Hakonc. A report from Nagasaki states tirat Prince Matsukata died as the result of injuries received in the earthquake. DE ATHS EX AG G ICR ATED. SYDNEY, Sept. 4. Doctor Omori, ono of the Japanese scientists at the Pan Pacific Congress states, after a consideration of the casualty figures of the 1855 earthquake, that the present figures as to the casualties are greatly exaggerated. AMBASSADORS PROPOSE INQUIRY LONDON, Sept. 3. The Conference of Ambassadors proposes the appointment of ail International Commission to conduct searching inquiries in Greece, as well as in Albania, where the murderers may have taken refuge.

FATE UNKNOWN. 'Received this day at 8.30 a.in.) PEKIN, Sept. 4. A despatch from Osaka states that the Tokio police fought pitched battles with two hundred Koreans who attempted to arouse the Socialists and other malcontents to a revolution. Tlio police finally overcame the insurgents hut the casualties are unknown. Martial law has been tightened. Yiscount Takahashi, ex-Prcmier, and 20 other leading members of the Seiyukai Party are reported to be dead. Refugees from Tokio were met by < Osaka newspaper men. A number of foreigners were killed in Hakonc find tho fate of 40.000 Occidentals in Yokohama and Tokio remains unknown.