S 1. L bl X A VIS 3 - 8.15. THURSDAY EVENING 8.15. f’ Bethlechem Theatre Weanesday 7.30 p. m. Adapted I'rom Pierre Benoit’s Masterpiece. The famous Story about Captain Morhange and Lieutenant Siint-Avit who were i novisonad by th: braatiful Quiz2en Aatinea. wads 2 kiazd»m was hidlea ia the desert of Sahara. Fhe Qieen wanted to crmp2l Morbange to lave har ant aving no suceess in this matter, she hypnotized Liculenant Saint-Avit and made hinx .l his own companion. This exceptional production will only be exhibited once, therefore make sure to be at the Theatre Munday Evening at 8.15 sharp. ADMISSION Reserved Seats... .....25¢c. General Entrance..........15c. thlaen .. e S, . 1D guarantee, and that Italian sh-'ls killed several refugees from Asia Misor, who were lodged in the schoo! of voliece. This ser 00! is situated in tha so-cailed fortress of Corfu, which, h wever, by virtue of the treaty, is unarmezd, the isiand being unfortified and only some old barracks existing there’’, Dublin, Aug. Ist.—s3 Government can- didates and 37 Republicans were elected tn the Dail in Monday’s election, aceord- ing to official returns given out at 11.30 last night. It is now expected that the Government will win 60 seats, while the Republicans may get 42 when the full results are known., Up to last night the Independents had secured 16 seats, La- bour 14 and Farmers 12, Forest Hill, Sept. Ist. —Tild n, United States, defeated !lawxes Australly in the second Davis challenge round test, The Tilden Hawkes encounter, though it give the United States a much needed vietory, was an anti climax to the John- ston-Anderson mateh. Tilden, bringing the full battery of his brilliant strokes into play, overwhelmed Hawkes almost from the start. The left-handed Austra- lian proved a hard and aggressive op- ponent, but he was outclassed. [lilden won by 6-4, 6 -2 and 6-1. Shanghai, Sept. 2nd.—One hundred thousand persons have perished in Tokio Yokohama, aceording to bulletins receiv- ed here from Japan. In Tokio the arsen- al exploded, destroying the arsenal and adjoining printing bureau. There were saveral thousand casualties here, At Ito, o1 the lzu Peninsula, more than 500 houses were washed away by tidal waves, Six hundred persons perished when the railway tunnel at Saska, the largest in Japan, collapsed. Tens of thousand of visitors many of them foreigners, are in tl}e mountain resorts of the Hakone dis- + #ot. They were panic stricken by the ~peatel quakes. Mount Hakone and the town of Atami were demolished with ‘he loss of six or seven thousand dead, At Yokohama the fire started in the Bund and spread through Benten and Iszaki streets wiping out the huisness districts. The lofty buildings hning the streets opposite the Tokin Cen- tral Railway station in Tokio were burn- ed. The main building of the eantral railroad station remains intact. Shanighai, Sept. 2nd.--The light crvi- ser Despatch, the only foreign vessel at Shanghai, sailed at 4 o’clock this morn- ing tor Yokohama, expecting to arrive in 18 hours. The Nichi was tie only newspaper in Tokio to escape destruec- tion. The Japanese community here is grief stricken. The most serious dam- age was done to the tract covering the Yamaoobate distriet ineluding the Tokio yards, Fukagawa, Akusanta, Shinaya, Nihonbasht aud Kanda, where hardly a single structure was left standing and thousands lack water and iood. The Kaijo building in the Marunouchi district collapsed with a thousand casualties. Manila, Sept. 2nd. —New earthquuke shocks of moderate intensity were re- cor’ed on the Manila cbservatory seis- mograph at 8 am (o 10 a m here today, according to Father Serra chief of the observatory. Athens, Sept. 2nd.--Grecce has ad- dressed an energetic protest to the Alljes against the bombardment by the ltai.ns of Corfu and the rasultant Kkilling of refugees. Lendon, Sept. 20d.—The lapse of another day firds no diminution in the tensiun or gravity of the Grees-Italian dispute. No furtiaer overt hostile act is recorded, but a grave aspect of the situ- ation is the Ttalian determination, ex- pressed beforehand to refuse to recog- nize the status of the League of Nations in rthe affair, or respect its dezision. The leading Dritish writers have found consolidation, in commenting on the dis- pute, in the consideration that in 1914 no international tribunal. sueh as the Leacue of Nations or Council of Am- hassadors exi-ted to which ‘the Austro- Serbian dispute might have been sub- mitted with some hope of avoidirg war. This hope will, they say. be shattered it Lialy refuses to recogniza the lLeague. Both the Greek and lialian Govern. ments are energetical'y oceurying them- selves in placing their respective cases before the world. The Tialian press does not hesitate to impute c¢riminal motives to Greece. The Greek Govern- m«nt on its side is eagerly offering to submit the question of responsibility for ibe Jannina murders tn» an International Tribunal and to abide by any decision and pay the compensation the Tribunal decrees, IJtaly, contending that the Greek Government has not been recog- nized by the Powers and lacks the sta- tus or right of appeal to the lLeague of Natiors, is sbout to repudiate its appli- cation and argues that othcrwise Greece will secure recognization thho gh a sas- sination. M.anw hile the Covnel of the League, wthich is considering (he di - pute, is proceeding eisurely and has ad- journed until Tuezxdey and even then may still further adjourn the ease Ano- ther disquieiing teature of the «ff ir is a report {.om Rome o” ai ti Ital'an demon- strations in the island of Crete, « hieh it is feared may be s prelude to a dese. ¢ upon that islaud like Corfu. Internation- al Statesmen are preserving a discreet silence on the subject, M. Poincare, made his custon:ary Sunday speech but care- fuliy avoided reference to foreign polities Lord Cutzon returned 8 London tonight, brought back pr ma‘urely through the threatening intervatiora situasion. He also deelined to say anvthing about the dispu e until te had time to study all ciliciai reports, He permitted himself the significant c¢omiment, however that the League of Natiows had the matter in hand and that scems to be the inevitable ard preliminary step. “"Everytody’s ef- forts’” he added. ''should be devoted to strengthening the League’s hands’’. Atheus, Sept. 2nd—--Signor Montagna the Itattan Minister, on behalf of the [talian Government this afternoon in- formed Foreign Minister Alexandris that Italy wili refuse to recogrize the decision of the League of Nations in the present d spute between lialy and Greece. Cairo, Egypt Sept. 2nd.——The Helucan seismograph registered a violent earth- quake beginring at 311 o’clock this morning Greenw!ch time, The intersity of the shock was tremendous. [t was one of the greatest ever recorded in Eeypt, equalling that of the great Chile- an convulsion. Londen, Sept. 2nd.——Ano‘her great earthquske was recorded at the West Bromwich Observatory at four o’clock this morning. Its origin is estimated to have been about 4,800 miles distant and clightly scutheast of the scene of Satur- day’s disastrous upheaval in Japan.