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VENTY YOKOHAMA, TOK10 RESIDENTS ESCAPED Casualty List in Japanese Earthquake Still Uncertain Neither Tokio Nor Yokohama Totally Destroyed, Resi- dential Districts Being Comparatively Uninjured. A despatch from London says: I All available Information shows The appalling nature of the Japanese that Tokio and Yokohama were not earthquake, fire and tidal wave, with totally destroyed, the foreign residen- the greatest loss of life and property j tial district of the port city, which is of any similar catastrophe in modern ! on a high bluff overlooking the bay, times, continues to be told by meagre suffering comparatively little damage, nd unconnected press despatches and while the residential suburban dis- tricts of Tokio also escaped. This would account for the few deaths am- private messages from foreign resi- dents and tourists who survived the holocaust. Bat Europe still awaits long the foreigners there, for on Sat- the graphic story of how the earth ' urday afternoon few would have been shook to pieces and then consumed in j In their office. flames Japan's capital and scores of! The destruction in Ti>kio extends towns around Tokio Bay, including over"" two-thirds of the letropolitan the great commercial port of Yoko- hama. district of 'oreigr with the low-lying districts completely wiped Th- loss of life is estimated at such | out. These include the slums of Fuka- varyifig figures, in some cases run- 1 gawa, the industrial section of Honjo, ning into hundreds of thousands, that; both on the right bank of the Sumida any certainty of the casualty is im-j River, Asakusa, famous for its amuse- possible while communications with ment parks, Kyobashi and Nibonbashi, districts remain as ! which include most of modern Tokio, the devastated they are. where four or five-storey buildings On the whole, the news received on lined the principal thoroughfare, the Thursday is of a more hopeful nature | Ginza. This section also includes Tsu- than any since the disaster, one anth kiji, in which, before Japan was eom- oritative message from a British pleteljL opened to the western nations, naval official at Yokohama placing the foreigners were compelled to reside, deaths of foreigners in that port at 'it has recently been occupied princi- seventy and stating that all the for- 'pally by missionaries, their schools eigrners in Tokio escaped. Even this 'and hospitals. During the summer number of dead, which is small as most of the Tsukijo residents are out compared with first reports, is enor-'of the city, but the loss of property mous for a foreign colony of a few ha. been heavy, thousands and indicates that the loss| In other section* of Tokio Asabu, of life among the native population j Shiba, Akaaaka, Totsuya and Ushigon may reach figures. the highest reported The only official estimate is based wher. the foreigners live in more or less isolated foreign compounds consisting of a fw western style on Home Office Information from' houses built on small hills, the damage Tokio that the loss of life there was was by fire, which, on account of the 30,000, but Yokohama is known to nuirfber of open spaces, could be con- have suffered much more severely than' trolled. The foreign embassies anc the capital city, and the Home Office' legal centres were widely scatters of figures do not attempt to take into throughout the higher districts consideration the one hundred miles j Tokio, and a number of them, inclnd- of coast-line towns and villages, all ing the United States Embassy, have in the path of the tidal wave. | been destroyed. SOLE SURVIVOR TELLS FATE OF ARCTIC PARTY Vaurer landed on Wrap^n Island. In all that time no word came from them nor was sent to them None could be *''nt in either direc'ii-.v They were British Flag on Wrangel Isle at Cost of Lives. world as though tny ttl Msrs. They had food si] for only one j-far. But they ha'i plenty of am- A despatch from Nome, Alaska,' munition, and gam. is supposed to be says: An Eskimo woman, sole sur- ' plentiful on Wrangel Island. Two of vivor of the Crawford expedition, ] them. Knight and Muurer. ware v.r- which left here for Wrangl Island,! eran Arctic explorer*, who knew how off the northern coast of Siberia, in) * r for themselves in the icy wild- the fall of 1921. described th* fate of e -nes. There was, therefore, ground the four white men composing the ex- '<"' expectation that th*y would be pedition. The trip was arranged hy frund alive and well. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, with the prin- We ma >' *ope to learn from the cipa! object of raising the British flair Etkimo woman, who alor.e was found over the island, which had been claim- nlive u P on the Island, h^w the four ed *>y the Soviet government Three of the party Allan Craw- men met their fate; whether through starvation, pestilence or disaster. We ford, of Toronto, .leader; Frederick Maurer, New Philadelphia, Ohio, and Milton Galle, New Brunfels, Tex. perished the second winter, the Eski- mo woman, named Ada, said. They went out on the ice seeking the main- land and never returned. The remaining man. Lorn* E. Knight, McMinnville, Ore., died of curvy June 20, 1923, and his body was brought back by the relief expe- dition, headed by Captain Harold Noice, which left her* August 3. Cap- tain Noice said his power schooner, the Donaldson, had little troubk reaching the island. Th first evidence of the roissin; party found by Captain Noice's expe- dition was a bottle in a deserted camp, Containing the natns of the party with the declaration that they claimed Wrangel Island in the name of Kim: George of Great Britain. Ada fainted when sh saw the men ' of the Noic* party approaching and tho Donaldson near by. On recovery fhe told the tale of tho disaster. Di- rected by Ada, Noic* found Knight dead In his sleeping: bag. Ada said; the had done all the hunting and had eard for Knight for two months be- .*>. 18 ALLAN CRAWFORD ALIVE? Stefansson, the Canadian explorer. Is being supported In his belief by British explorers that Allan Crawford and his companions may be on the coast of Siberia, perhaps detained by the Soviet. The map shows Wrangel Island, where Crawford raised the British flag, in its relation to the main- land, for which the three men started. The distance between is 110 miles. Canada from Coast to Coast Yarmouth, N.S. A shipment of the smelter at present With bottt pure bred Guernsey cattle was made furnaces operating at capacity, it to recently by W. H. Corning to Bar-, expected that it will be increased to bados. Mr. Coming's Guernsey stick such an extent that the monthly ana* was made known to Barbadians some ount of ore treated will be close to time ago, since which time several 50,000 tons. shipments have followed. Winnipeg, Man. A loan scheme fo* Fredericton, N.B. A decision to catt!e fading among the farmers thai proceed with the formation of a pro-'. wi n enable the farmers to feed and* vincial organization for the promotion ho i d catt i e M mtft raar ket require- of the production of seed potatoes was ments> has been announced by the reached at a meeting of potato grow- Manitoba Cattle Loan Co. It is hoped ers of the various potato belts of the the resalt ^yj , how a considerable in- province, held here recently. Over two crease j n live stock in the province, hundred potato growers were in at- wilh better retarn f or the farmer. tendance. , Montreal, Que.-The eagerness with . R*? 1 "* 8 " k n * turnover * which Britishers are taking advan- V' 107 ' 2 , 3 ** tion of can scarcely suppose that the Soviet Russians fulfilled their threat of go- ing thither and murderingthem. Pend- ing such revelation, minds shrink frona the picture of those four men, wonder- ing why they were neglected for they could not know that for the first time in many years the ice pack was so dense as to prevent approach to the island daily climbing the highest hit! to look for coming help, to see only the unbroken wilderness of ice anJ snow, and at last lying down to die, feeling themselves deserted by those whom they had so bravely sought to serve. It is the latest chapter in the grim annals of Arctic tragedies and one of the saddest of them alL BRITAIWfNEW SUB OBJECT OF INTEREST Naval Authorities Await Sec- ret Trial of Huge Submers- ible X-l, of 3,600 Tons. A despatch from London says: Because of the recent disaster to Japan's super-submarine, 77, naval authorities here are awaiting the trials of Great Britain's giant mys- Premier Benito Mussolini Natural Resources Bulletin The Naturd! IU-sojrces Intel- ligence Service of the Depart- ment of the Interior at Ottawa says: Northern Ontario is a tealexi book to many of th Ontario people, especially those of mid- dle age who attended school be- fore the northern portion of the province came into prom- inence. It would well repay anyono to closely study a map of north- ern or newer Ontario, as de- velopments art taking pla e at a very rapid rate- Mining and pulp and paper making are outstanding industries of the province, and practically ail of the former and the greater por- tion of the latter are loratr.! in newer Ontario. Preceding 'his development it the production of hydro-electric power, new plants are constantly bein; put into operation, and th demand for power is almoat inaatiable. There is already developed or in coune of development 100.- 000 horse-power for th* mining industry only. On the llth instant the first power from th n*w plant of *h.i Great N rth- ern Power Co. at Indian Chutes, on the Montreal river, was de- livered to Porcnpin*. 2,000 horsepower being provided with an additional 4.000 to be pro- vided at a later date. tage of the opportunity to come to on o , n , earn d Canada to help garner Canada's bum- P rofit f. ' 110 '* 9 , 7 *?***** per crop, is shown by a despatch from' ? end ' n * April 30th, 1923 accord- London, Eng., which states that it ln * * annual report of the co- was necessary to employ a large num- : opera* and markets branch of th ! her of police to quell the mad scramble Provincial Department of Agriculture. I of prospective harvesters to get Calgary, Alta. Alberta is third | aboard the last ship which left En g- among 1 the provinces of Canada in the j land. In view of the fact that a quantity and value of butter produced j large number were unable to secure lt year, being beaten out by Ontario , berths, another batch of harvesters and Quebec. Alberta produced 15,- will be sent to Canada on the rtext 41 ",070 pounds, valued at $5,126,844. ship, which will arrive here in time Vernon, B.C. Several Indian Army to enable the Britishers to proceed officers have this summer taken up Wwt and help in the harvest. land in the Okanagan and are doing 1 Sudbury, Ont.- has been blown -The second furnace in at the British- very well. In addition several Can- adian veterans have come into the opinion here which inclines to the be- lief that beyond a certain stz. it is likely to be found that big submarines cannot be handled efficiently. Th. X-l in submersible trim is of 3,600 tons, which is much in excess of the U-142, the biggest German sub- marine constructed during the war. It is now well known that the most efficient German submarine command- ers preferred the smaller undersea craft as being more manageable. It was said to b difficult to gauge howi far the large submarine would dive and impossible for the commander to have the whole vessel under his sur- vey, as he could in a smaller craft. The fate of th. Japanese submarine. and the trouble which it is understood, r *P'y to ^ not sent b y Foreign Min- 1 has been experienced with some of the ist r Tchitcherin to Great Britain pro-, larger American submarine, has made! testing against the raising of th. speculation more k.en as to how the' British flag on Wrangel Island by an X-l will act in the trials. These trials.] expedition of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, like the launching of the big submar- the explorer. Great Britain has in- ! American Smelter here. A third fur- district under the aejirof the Soldier nace is on the ground but has not yet Settlement Board. They are of a fin* * b*en erected. Approximately 1.000 type and will eventually secur. valley tons of ore is being treated daily at land themselves. Aero Photography Urged to Appraise French Land. The French Committee of Aerial Propaganda h<t3 just brought before legislator! an appeal for the tue of aerial photography in completing :h? register of ara and valuation of land of France. If they continue to use tHr' present method of surveying it wiB require 40* 1 varo to compUte t'i register and th~ coat will b at least 5,000.000,000 francs. The technical Mrric for register of 'ar.ds. created by a Law of l8i/8, hai ompleted only 101 communes in twenty-five years. By th> aid of aerial photography it Is estimated that the register of lands ca-i !>e com- Dieted in forty rears at a Co.* of it'.*'.- mo.OOO frarca. With the uj of a single aeroplsn.. equipped with spe- cial apparatus, and a forej of rifteen orraton in a photcg/aplier'a labor- atory the resisted of sixty commune could be taken in a ti-irle year. P 7" ce Re B"t. Heta> to **** **** throne, .ho escaped from the Imperial Palace la _ 9 __ Tokio after tt wa part'.ally destroyed, Starting lif. In a workhous, a gir! H directing railef work, and Uaa has just taken her B.A. degree at Bir- thrown open irhat remains of the pai- mingham Univ.rgity. , ace to refugees. Wrangel Expedition Does Not Touch Russia's Rights A deipatch from Moscow says: In Weekly Market Report Ine at Chatham, June 16. will b con- ducted with the greatest possible se- crecy. In naval quarters hre to-day it is impossible even to ascertain ap- proximately ths tim when the X-l will go through her paces. If she comes up to the highest expectations then it is likely she will be the fore- runner of two other similar craft in the near future. formed Russia that ths expedition was TORONTO. "0; turkeys, young, 10 Ibs. and up, wheat No. 1 Northern, - 5 - Drsssed poultry Spring chickent, 9 I lb.. and over, 38c ; chickens, 2 to 3 Ibs., 35c: hens, over 5 Ibs., 30c; do, 4r to 5 Ibs., 28c ; do. 3 to 4 Ibs., 20c ; roost- . ers, 18c; ducklings, over 6 Ibs.. 28c; do, 4 to 5 Ibs.. 25c ; turkey., young, 19 Ibs. and up. 30c. Bears Canadian, hand-picked, lb.. 7e; primes, 6 He. Maple products Syrup, pr imp, gal., $2.50; pr 5 -p.. tin, $2.40 per gal. : maple sugar, ;b., 25c. Hon.y 60-lb. tins, 11 to 12c per lb.; 10-lb. tins, 11 to 12c; 5-lb. tins, Ontario No. 2 white oats Nominal. 12 to 13c; 2S-lb. tins, 12 to 14c; comb honey, per dozen, $3.75 to $4: No. 2. .- - .1- *. _ An 5 Manitoba tun*. Manitoba barl.y Nominal. All the above, track, bay ports. Am. corn No. 2 yellow, J1.08. Barley Nominal. Buckwheat No. 2, nominal. Rye No. 2, nominal. Pas No. 2, nominal. Millfeed Del.. Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $28: * An . . **>^ . a private affair, organiwd by Stefan* oa l lne S7 wr . . \ , shorts, per ton, $31; middlings, son, and that it doe. not touch th. d yj flour ; | 2 1Q question of Russia s sovereign righu Ontario wheat No. 2 whit., nom- over the Island. However, any attempt j na i_ by Russia to hamper th. work of the Ontario No. 2 white oati expedition would b. viwed by Great Ontario corn Nominal Britain with utmost gravity, th. not. Ontario flour Ninety per cent, pat, $3.25 to $8.60. says. In a reply to Great Britain, M. in Jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship- Smoked meat* Hams, mod., 27 to Tchitcherin accepts the explanation, ment, $4.60 to $4.70; Toronto QMS* 29c; cooked hams. 43 to 46c; smoked H declare., however, that co-ordina- * 4 - 50 to $4.60; bulk seaboard. $4.50. rolls, 22 to 24c; cottage rolls, 23 to tinn k*tM<rt~n th iintri conwmpH Manitoba flour 1st pats., in cotton 2c; breakfast bacon. 30 to 34e : spe- tioa between the countrie, concerned must exist when the sovereign rights nt nl . ,,,,. , , uf . of one State are at issue. , , . 8ac ^' W.90 per ML; * *** ^^5"* b ? n ' 34 to 3Sc{ ' Cheese New, large. 241* to 25c;, backs, bonelew, 32 to 38c. twins. 25 to 26c; tripW 26 to 27c| Cured meaU Long cl.ar bacon. 50 Stiltons. 28 to 27c; Old, Stiltons, 880 j to 70 Ibs., $18; 70 to 90 Ibs.. $17.60; Tchltcherin'g note to Great Britain twins, 33\4 to 34c. Nw Zealand old ^Ibs., and P. $16.50; lightweight The Dictator of Italy, whose d- oth.r article.. Canada Sends Supplies to Earthquake Victims A despatch from Vancouver, B.C., says: With 600 tons of supplies from Canada for the earthquake stricken people, the steamer Empress of Rus- sia sailed Thursday afternoon for Ja- pan. The cargo is consigned to the relief commission at Tokio. It i* made 1915 formally notified all allied and up of flour, salmon, canned milk and neutral Governments that the island gcVonds "i8 to 29c. said Wrangel Island had been incor- cheese-, 81 to 32c. porated into Russia's territory in rolli, in barrels, $36; heavyweight ___ ra _ ^ ___ Butter Finest creamery pjints, 3S ro\U, $33. 1821-24, that Rusia~had"buiu Tight- to 40c ; ordinary creamery, 36 to 37c;; Lard Pure tiercwt, 16 to 16Hc| houses and other works there, and in * V 2 L_ ^ ?**; . ^ 55* 16 '* .*? l l c L= ?^< _ 17 * "_*5i * "flo" ' was an integral part of Russian terri- fore his death and that after he died mantis upon Greece are described as i The Empress of Russia will be the.tory. The note added that the Soviet Live poultry Spring chickens, Ibs. and over, 36c; chu-kens, 2 to 37a , 5^S*i8!?i* 7 Havy steers, choice, $8 to $8.50; heavy steers, good, $7 to $8; batcher l_ t l i i IM I 1OB* eU W* | ** V\p i *- * * "* - w ^ - *t |^wv ^ v** f wv* v ii' i, Me left him m the sleeping bag and "Infinitely more humiliating" than . first steamer carrying relief supplies i Government regarded the raising of . fog 30c; hens, over 5 Ibs., 24c; do, steers, choice. $6.50 to $7; do, good, put up another tent fifty fe.t away, those presented by Austria to Serbia i to reach Japan from the American ' the British flag there as a violation of 4 to 5 Ibs., 22c; do, 8 to 4 Ibs., 17ci $6 to $6.50; do, med., $5.50 to $6.50; Last December, Ada said, Knight in 1914. nil two other m.n started for the mainland, but through some mistake landed near Perald Island, and af'er two weeks returned to Wrangel. Knight was too 111 to travel. Craw- ford. Maur.r and Galle started for Siberia, taking dog feed for seventeen days and very little other provisions. Ada said they, too, took a wrong di- rection, moving to the southeast as they passed forever from her vision. The Tragedy of Wrangel , Island. Ronmnco becomm ;*rtr tragedy. That Is the tale <' W>'a-v/el Island. II wa only the other day thnt Mr. Rtcfansson was spea^iiv.' confidently of thfl splendid advent iiv of the four tun who, in the mid*'* of inconceivable Vm.lineaii, were holdin; that desolate rtl valuable island for the Uritish lliipirn and of the.li- r.liff by the ex- Bt't ition which he hsd dinpntvlu'd from Nome. "The returnlo:- party," he said, 'V.ll have a story io t..-il that will iik with the most rusnantic in Arctic il'tory." The only ralurnin? party is he relief party itself, and tha story 'ells is one of th" ma-it pi.iful in rotic history that aM four of tha H\. nturers art) dead. It was two years uco this month l"t Crawford, G*ll. Knight and continent i Russian sovereign rights. - V* * W" \ j',. *P >* ^ VSNSEfco i HAQAV^ ,s. * Tokto, the capital, and Yokohama, the grent port unit THE STRICKHN iii- v rl;i! i ty. and many others of the Japans i-ii:-< ntoiiHotied iu tiio honor of -us despatchi* . stricken. To. loss of ltf has beeu appalltug, ttre uud Hood aUJiug to tb roosters, 15c; ducklings, over 5 Ibs., dp, com., $4 to $5; baby beeves, $8.5(1 to $9.50; cows, fat choice. $4 to $4.75 1 do, Med., $3 to $3.75; do, canners and cutters. 11.25 to $2; bulls, butcher, good, $4 to $4.50; feeding sheers, good, $5.50 to $6.25: stookers, $4 to* $6; bulls, butcher. $4 to $4.50: calves, choice. $10 to $10.75; do. med.. $8 to $10; do. com.. $4 to S8; milct^ cows, $60 to $100: springers. $80 to $110; sheep, choice. J6; do. heavy. $3 to $5c do, yeurlings. $8 to $!); lambs, owes and wethers. $12 to $12.25; bucks, $10.50 to $10.75; commons, $8 to $9; hogs, flat rates, $10.35. Quotations, fed and water basis: Select bscon. $11.40 to $11.90; thick smooths, $10.35 to $10.8fi; lights. $7.10; heavies. $9.40; sows, $<i.90. MONTREAL. Corn, Am. No. 2 yellow. $1.04 to $1.05. Oats, fan. West. No. 2, 57^4 to 6Sc; do. Can. West No. 3. 5<i to 50 4 c; do, txtra No. 1 feed, 55 to oa*ic: do. No. 2 local white. 54 to 54Vc. ' Flour, Man. spring wheat pats., Ists, $6.90; do, 2nds. $t?.40; do. strong bakers, $6.20; do. Winter pat.. choico, $5.75 to $5.85. Rolled oat;,, hag 90 Ibs., $8.25. Bran. $28.25. Short*. ?"1.25. Hay, No. 2. per ton. car lots, SUV Cheese, finest easterns. 'JS 1 -* to 28%.c. Butter, choicest creamery, S5Hc. Eifgs, selected, 40c. Com. dairy cows. $2 to $3.50; cum. bulls. $2 to S2.5i): icood voal calves, $S; med. sucker calves, $6 to $7; rfrassurs. $3 to $3.50; ungraded hogs, | $10,60 to $10.80. KINGDOM both desfcypd. are shown on the map. us well as Nagoya. Saski. b. (sak-u