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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.