lated
by the Prefecture
of Tokio
on th:
earthquake
casualiies,
place the dead
in
Tgkio
at
77.823
and
in
Yokohama
at
33,767,
In
addition 120,070
persons
~re
missing
in Tokio.
It
is
estimated
that
more
than
a million refugees
have
left
the
capital for the
surroundinzx eruntry.
While
the
material
loss
throuzh
the
earthquake,
tidal
wave
and
fires
was
tremendous,
the country
is not
so
badly
hit
as
at
first
appeared.
The
damage
caused
in
tke
neighbourhood
of
Tokio
represents
less
than
on»
quirter
of
Japan’s
produetive
plants
[he
chiet
spheres
cf industrial
activity are situated
elsewhere.
Capatown.
S. A.. Sept.
15th —The rift
b2tween
the
Nationalist
anl
Labour
parties
on the question
of South
Africa
bz2coming
a republic or continuing
to
be
a
dominion of the British
Empire,
is
re-
garded
as particularly important
in view
of
the compact
signed
by General
Hert-
zog,
National
Leader,
and
Col.
Croswel,
last April for cooperation
in opposing
the
S nute Governman'.
The rift
wa
clrar-
ly
shown
by Barl.w,
one of
th:
lab ur
leaders
of the
South
African
Assembly,
in
a speech
yesterday
when he
declared
that
the
great
majority
of
the
labour
members
were
opposed
to a
weakening
of
the
ties
between
South
Africa
and
Great
Britain.
It was
no
way
lessened
during
the proceedings
of the
Transvaai
N-tionalist
Congress
yesterday
when
Piet
Grobler,
a prominent
member
of the
Legis'ative
Assembly,
declared
that the
Nationalists
had
never given
up th2 idea
of
independence,
the
Narionalist
con-
pact
with the labour
party
Grobler
said,
only
affected
the members’
vole in
Par-
liament,
outside of Parirament
the
Na-
tionals
would procsed
with their
Repub-
lican propagandaa.
Berlin,
Sept.
15th. --Speaking
in
the
Reichstag
last
night the Minister ol Fin-
ance,
Herr Hilferding, sail
the
exp=ndi-
tures
on the Ruhr aceount
have
incireased
enormously
and
the
population
in
the
occupied
region
was being
largely
sup-
plied trom
the Reich
Exchequer.
Capi-
tal
for trade
and
industry
in those
re-
gions, he asserted,
must be provided
to an
ever
increasing
extent.
Hence
efforts
must
be
made
to solve
the
conflict
by
speedy
negotiations.
Sudden
cessation
of help for the Ruhr
population
was
im-
possible,
th2 Mipister cortinued,
but
in
view
of the
currency
market,
expendi-
tures
could
not be.continued
on the
pres-
ent scale,
although
the curtailment
would
ba
so
conducted
that
the
population
would not suffer.
Herr Hilferding
con-
cluded his remarks
with an
appeal
to the
nation
to avoid
civil war
and
to hold out
until
a solution of the country’s
external
difficulties could be reached.
Halifax, N.S.,
Sept.
16th.—The
wreck-
i"g boat
'‘Strandhill”’, owned
by
Beaz-
y Bros., sailed
on
Saturday
night
for
the
Straits
of
Belle Isle
where
she
is
intending
to
salvage
the
guns
of
the
wrecked cruiser ‘‘Raleigh.”
S
LRI
8 VIB
Fhiladelphia,
Sept.
16th.
Wm.
T.
Tilden 2ad
retained
the lawn
tennis
sin-
gles championship,of the
United
States
on Saturday
afternoon
when
he dafeatad
Wm.
M. Johnson,
2f
Sin
Franeisco.
in
the fir.al round
at
tne
Germanto./n
Crick-
et
Cluh.
Tildan
won .in
straight
sets.
The
scores
wer: 6-4, 6-1,
6-¢
Thae
vie-
tory in
such
decisive
sweeping
ftashion
was
the
fourth
national
championship
triumpa for the Puiladeiphian
in
succes-
sian
a1
] the seeond
round
over
Johunson.
Tilden
was
master
of
the
mateh
frow
the
outset.
1
2
drove
with
relentless
force,
played
w
"h
a
care
and
accuracy
that
was
uncan
-,
wore
hls
opponent
ragged
with
long
cross
eourt
shots
and
throughout
prevented
the
Californian
from
excreising
his
famous
forehand
driving
shots.
Tilden’s
superiority
is
evidenced
by
the
‘fact that
he earned
28
points
to
14
for
his
opponent,
made
6
errors
and
made 24
placements
to
14 for
his
rival.
The
meeting
was
the
thir-
teenth
between
Tilden and
Johnson.
Be-
fore the
matech
each
had
won
six times
and each
also
won ‘23
sets,
It was from
Johnson
that Tilden
wvon his
first
title in
1920 at Forest
Hills.
London, Sept.
16th,- It is boeoming
in-
creasingly evident
Lhat
the tariff reform-
ers and free tralers are preparing
to make
the
economic
conference
the
greatest
struggle
since
the days
of
Mr.
Joseph
Chamberlair.
For
many
months
nast
propaganda
has
been
issuing
from
th:
headquarters
of the
taniif
reformers
and
new
o-'ganizations
have
been
formed,
si'eh
as the Kmpire
Developing
Associ-
tion,
which
maintains
that
the
Briush
Empire
cannot
be held together if clnser
trade
bonds
are not formed between
the
motherland
and
the
dominions.
The
free
traders
are
working
more
quietly,
vet their efforts are efficient,
They have
form:
1
a pariiamentary
committee
and
arousing pub'ic opinion,
especially
in
tne
midlands,gently
resurrecting
the
ancient
war cry, ‘‘your food
will cost
you more.”’
Labour
and
the
Asquith
Liberals
are
uniting to the ¢xtent of cooperating
with
the
object of restoring
England
to
her
long
lost position of
a
really free
trade
country.
‘The question
is
an
exceeding-
ly complex
»ne and it is rendered
more
so by the present
European
situation
and
thecomplete collapse of the German
mark
as
well as
the depreciation
of the French
fianec
making competition
with
Britain
possible
by other
nations
where
formerly
she
held
a
monopoly.
The
Bradford
wool
manufacturers
definitely
demand
that the
dominions
impose
a tariff vpon
all wool exported to countries oihen
than
England,
which
would
give
English
woolens
a
preference.
They
mainuain
that
the Frerch
makers
are able
to
un-
dersell
their
competitors
owing
to
low
exchange
value
of
the
franc.
Other
manufacturing
organizations
are
prepar-
ing a campaign along similar lines and
are
receiving
encouragement
from conserva-
tive leaders,
although
certain
elements
in the
party think
the time
inopportune
at present
to give full
encouragement
to
all
these
proposals.
As
a definite
plank
of the platfurm interwoven
in these
plans
is
the determination
to ask
the
Domini-
ons especially Australiaand
New Zealand,
to
cooperate
to
lower
the
cost
of inter-
Empire
shipping and
schemes
are
afoot
to
hold
a gigantic
mass
meeting
during
the
holding
of
the
conference
and
to
mobilize
the
forces
of the
press
to
im-
press
upon
the Dominion
representatives
the overpowering
volume of public opinion
that
favours
the
enlargement
of
the
imperial
preference
granting
the
Do-
minior.e
favourable
treatment
in
the
purchase
of British
products.
‘The
free
traders
are
not
divulging
their
plans,
but merely point out that
so far the
Gov-
ernment
has
taken
no action
in the mat-
ter and they are
awaiting
a
definite
an-
nouncement
of Government
policy before
ther make
their plans
known.
There
is
no
doubt that this
ques
icn
will
domin-
ate,
not orly the economic,
but al-o
the
imperial conference.
Mayence,
Sept.
17th.—The
Inter- Allied
Rhineland
High Commission
his deeided
to allow
free
traffic
between
the
occu-
pied territory in
the
Rineland
and
unoc-
cupied Germany
beginning
at once.
Barcelona,
Sept.
17th.—The
prinecipal
corrmunist
and
bolshevist
leadars
have
been
arranged
and
placed
in jaii.
Other
memoers
of
the
organization
are
de-
clared
to be
1n
flight
tovward
the French
{frontier which
is
being closely
watehed.
Philadelphia,
Sept.
17th.
Anthracite
coal
miners,
representing
the
156,000
ur.ion workers
of the Pemnsylvania
hard
coalfields
met
in
convention
here
today
to
pass
upon
the
proposed
two
years’
agreement
drafted
by
their
slicers
and
the
operators
i Harnvisbirg
mre
days
age.,
Delcgates,
represerting
locals
in
each
of the
three
disiiie
s
of
the Urited
Mine
Wotkers
in
ile
Anthracite
re-
gion,
are
here
for tle
ccn
ention.
Ra-
tification of the terms
of
the
sett'ement
by
thke
convention
was
the
[inal
step
necessary
to biing
about
a
resumption
of
mining
operatiors,
suspenced
since
August,
3lst,
when
the
previous
con-
tract expired and the
men
were
ordered
to quit work, Mr. Lewis, President
of the
United Mine Workers,
who
directed
the
negotiatiens
with
the
operators,
was
here
for the
opening
cos
the
convention
and expressed
confidence
that
the
dele-
gates
wculd approve
the settlement
with
little or no opposition.
It was the general
belief of both
union
cofficers
and
men that
the workers
wi!l be back
in the
mines
on
Wednesday.
NEwW YORK, Sept.
17th.
Fiour, (hard
winter clears
$5.35.
-
hard
winter straights
$5.75
Meal, Kiledried per
100 pounds
$2.25.
New Season’s
Pork per barrel $37.00.
Heavy
Mess Pork per
brl. $24.75
Sugar—Crys;szlgmmaximum
per
100
ibs.
Mclasses
Sugar
89
maximum
5.68.