question
of extendivyg
the
Italian
oceupa-
tion
but merely
with
the o' ject ot
mak-
ing
these
islards
a part
of the Corfu
de-
fensive
system.
The occupation
of Pax-
> aad Antipaxos byte
Italians
was
re-
purted
soon after the occupationof
Ce-fu,
it
would therefore
appear
that
the lial-
ians have seized
further terrvitory to
com-
piete thering
arcund
Corfu.
London,
Sept.
sth.—Yorkshire
won the
county
ecricket
championship
for
1923
with a
percentage
of
85.8).
thie
being
the second
year
in
succession
that
the
team
has
been
victorious
in
the
county
cricket
championships
matehes.
lLast
year
Yorkshires
percentage
was
83.89.
Nottinghamshire
was
again
second
this
vear,
with a percentage
of 63 00,
having
bcen
runnerup
with
a
percen‘aze
of Tl.
03.
Lancashire
was third this year
with
a percentage
of 60.00.
I. fifth place
last
vear
Lancashires
percentage
then
was
56.42.
Surrey
last
year
was third with
66.95,
but
was fourth
this
year
with 58.
26.
Kent
55.35
was
fifth,
Sussex
52.66
cixth,
Hampshire
4522
<eventh
and
Middlesex 40.99
e¢ightib.
London,
Sept.
Tth
—With
communica-
tion between
the
devastated
earthquake
d st iet of Tokio
and
the Southern
Japan-
ese
ports
of
Kobe
and
(saka
partially
restored
by
aeropianes
and
road
trans-
prrt along
the
Takaido
route
and
with
the
sick of Japans
well
trained
army
di-
v sicns,
which hove
been
ecnverging
en
the
'uined
ecapitzl
since
Sunday,
cxert-
it g discipline
to restore order
amony
the
h indreds
of thousands
of homneless,
ne
vs
from Japan
begins
to
give
some
definite
icea
of the
loss
Hf foreign
life.
‘There
a e approximatel
100
dead
or reported
missing,
half of whom
are D-itish, but the
Jipanese
Government
representatives
[
ore
are
still uninformed
as
to
the
num-
bor of
Japanese
wuo
perisied
throuzh
the
earthquake,
fire
and
deluze.
Tho 2
“oreign
OQifice
tonizht
issued
the
first
oficial list of the British
killad and
injur-
ed,
the
names
huv:ing been
cibled
by the
Consul
at Kobe.
The
list comprises
thir-
ty British subjects
who
are
repo:ted
on
goou authority
to
have
lost
their hives,
Mos. of them
were
kilied
in
Yokohama,
which reports
continue
to indicaie
suffer-
ed
n.ore
than
Kobe.
The
Kote
Consul
explained that the list
of
casualties
was
incomipicte,
PBesides
tie
dead,
it
con-
tains
the
rames
of
a
score
of
British
missing
and also
names
of four menibers
of
the
British
Embessy
and
Consular
staff,
whose
whereabcuts
are
unknown.
Al {foreigrers
are
believed
to
be out of
the vicinity of Yckokama,
but
hundreds
stiil are
isolated
in Tckio. Makura, Nikko
and
other
inland cities.
Their
ccondition
is
not
known.
Several
American
and
British warships
are
rushing
provisions
and
medicine
to
Japan.
Scme
already
are in Yokohama.
The
Oriental
hotel at
Kobe is the
headquarters
for
the
inter-
reticnal relief.
Splendid
work
is
being
re.
The
foreigners
are
arriving
by
sihits end
the natives evericid,
It
1s ex-
£ 3
L
ulx Ay
|
peected
that
within 2
week
Osaka
and
|
Kobe
wiil have
a
popalation
of
109,000.
|
Shanghai,
S2pt.
7th. —The British
Vice
|
Cousul
at Yokohama
was
kilied
in
tha
earthquake,
says
a Britishnaval
wireiess
t
rec
ived
here.
The
wife
of
Surceon
Con.
nander
Hingston,
who was
in charge
.
of ihe Yokohama
naval hospital,
als)
was
-
killed, but the
remainder
of his
stalf and
-
their families
eseaped.
The Swiss
Minis:
~
ter and
the personnel
of tne Lagation
arz
-~
safe.
The
German
Consul
General
anl
.
his famiiy are
also
reported
to
hava
es-
caped,
)
(saka,
Sept.
Tth.—The Japanese
Gov-
ernment
has proelaimed
a thirty day
mora-
torium for pavm
ts falling duo fromsept-
ember
Istto Sep
aber 30th. The
morato-
rium is inapplicavie outside
the z e ot the
disaster.
Persons
profiteering in essential
commedities
are
liuble
to imprisonment
for
three
years,
or
a
fine of 3,000
ven,
while
anyone
found
guil.y of spreading
rumeurs
with the objeet
of encouracing
riotine
damazing
propzriy,
or distuchiaz
the
peazce»,
may
he
imprisoned
for
ten
years
or fined 3,000 yen.
The
promulga-
gation
of the moratorium,
as
well
as
tho
edicts
against
profiteering
and
the circu-
lation of f:lse rumours,
ares
made
publie
in
the
torm
of emergercey
imperiai
de-
Cregs.
Geneva,
Sept”
Bth,—lf
ltaly
accepts
yesterday’s
d:zision
of
th:
Inter-\ Lied
Council
of
A nbdassadors,
Urese:
wiil
view
her dispute
with the Italian
1 vara
ment
as settled
and
will not
pash
b
re-
quest-to
the Lzague
of
Nations
10 iaves-
tigate
the erisis.
M.
Politis,
the
Greek
|
spogesman,
toid the correspondent
o lay.,
M. Politis added,
however,
that
accept-
ance
by
Greeee
was
contingent
upon
|
whether
the
programme
of settlement
reached
at Parts
included
armancements
for
the
ltahan
evacuation
of Coifu and
|
th2
other
Greek
islands
seized
by
ilhe
naval
foreces
of
the
Rome
Government.
|
Santa
B rbara,
Cal., Sept.
9 h—Seven
|
Unitad
Sta
es
navy
uestiovers
and
ihe
|
Pacific
mail
liner
"Cuba’’ were
wrecked
|
yesterday
morning
and
last
night,
lhe
|
navy vessels
erashed
on
the
rocks
ina
|
dense
fog
off Argueilo Light,
75
miles
!
rorth
of Canta
Barbara
aud
the
passen-
|
ger
steamer
cn
a reef off
the southend
|
of San
Miguel
Island,
&5
miles
off thhs
purt.
Twentyfive
eniisted
men
of
Ihe
destroyers
lost
their
lives
in
the
naval
disaster
and all
tive
destroyers
weie
re-
|
ported
as total losses.
The hner
"Cuba’™
|
was
reported
to
bave
sunk
during the
night,
but
all
passergers
and
men:bers
of
i er crew either
wetre
landed
at
Losan-
geles
by the
destreyer
Rero,
or
are
on
their way
to San
Francisco
on board
the
Standard
Qil tunker
W.
S.
Miller, with
|
the
¢ xcepticn
of
Ceptain
J.
C.
Holland,
|
the
purser,
steward
and
eight
scamen
|
who remaired
cn board
to
guurd
a ship-
|
ment of $2,500,0.0
silver
bulicn.
Dense
icg
waes
the
ccuse
of
both
diszsters.
|
The
destroyers
Chauncey,
Wceodbury,
|
Luller, Siee,
Nicholas,
Yourg,
and Del-
phy
were ali beached
within
a few min-
utes
of one
another,
accerding
to paval
officers.
The flotilla, of which the wreck-
ed
craft
formed
a
part,
was
in
com-
mand
of Captain
Fdwards,
Commanding
Offieer
of
the
Delphy
anrd
was
on
g
vractice cruice,
The
dead-were
all trap-
ved
in bunks
on
the "Young'' when
that
vessel
struck
and
were
drowied
when
the craft
capsized
within
two minutes
after striking.
Move than
500
men
were
rescued
from
the
wrecked
destroyers
which tonight
are reportad
to be
pound-
inx to pieces
on
the rocks,
all total losses.
Os the survivors
15
of the
seriously
in-
Jured
were
brought
to
the
Sarto
Dar-
bara
county hospital here.
One
hundred
others
were
cut
and
bruisel
in
ctheijr
swin
to
safety
over
the ijagged
rocks.
The
destroyvers
were
travelling
in
for-
mation
at
20
knots
an
hour
in
a heavy
sea
and
dense
fog when
the
leading
ves-
sel
erashed.
Carried
ahead
by
a sirong
tide,
the
others
piled
on
the
beusch
in
sucsession.
The
boats
tonicht
lav
in
line along
the
shore
at
intervals
of
259
feet
one of
them,
the
Chsau
eey
was
resting
nigh
on
the :ceke.
Waushington,
Sept 9th. —An earthquuke
of moderate
intensity
was
recorded
be.
tween
5.23 and
6 40 teday
on
the
seismo-
gravh,
at Georgetown
University Father
Tondorf, seismographi-t
said
it
was
dif-
ficuit from
the
rccord
to
detevmine
the
distance
of the
disturbance.
but
he
estj-
mated
1t
ceniered
2,300
or
2,700
miles
from
Washington.
It
had
two
periods
of maximum intensity
at
6
and
at
6.15
o'elouek.
Athens,
Sept.
9th.—Greece
has replied
to
the
note
of the Coungil of
Ambassa-
dors
announcing
her
readiness
to
zon-
form
with
the decision
of the Ambassa-
dors
wi
b
regard
to
Italy’s
demsnds
in
cwnne
ton
with the kilhine
o
the ltalian
mcmbers
of the Greco-Alba:
iun
bounda-
v comnis-ior,
Piris,
Sept.
9th,
—Greeece’s
aceeptance
of
the
terms «f the Counell
of
Ambassa-
ders
in connection
with
the
ltalo-Greek
controversy
wias
received
!‘-f“t'iii“_\' at
the
Foreign
Office
today,
The
acceptance
fays premineat
insistance
on
the
evae:
a-
tiou of Corfu
by the ltalians
at the
swon-
est
possikble
moment,
Berlin,
Sept.
9h,
~-The
end
of
the
Rubr
cecupation
vroblem
is
in
sight,
in
diplomatic
cireles
the
statement
was
made
yesterday
hat
negotiations
are
under
way
which
will
probabiv
clear
up
ithe
German-French
difficulties with-
in
80
days
Optimism
18
expressed,
but
it is declared
that should
negotiations
fail
the
resuit
wiil
be
a
crash
of
the
Stresseman
Cabinet
and
probably
the
worst revelution
since
the war.
Lovdon,
Sept.
16th.—A
severe
earth-
guake
shoek
was experienced
in Caleutta
at 3.58 o’ciock this morning,
says
an lix-
change
Telegraph
despateh
{rom
that
City.
The
inhabitants
hurried from the
huiidings
in night
attire.
No
propaty
damaze
was
reported.