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g nature of the Ja] : fire and tidal wave, wi } loss of life and prope milar catastrophe in modern continues to be told by meagre, unconnected press despatches and '#nd tourists who survived the 8 graphic story of how the earth to pieces and then consumed in' ch from London saysi-- The destruction in Tokio extends fivate messages from foreign resi! seaust. But Europe still awaits flames Japan's capital and scores of 'towns around Tokio Bay, including; over two-thirds of the metropolitan district of foreign wards, with the low-lying districts completely wiped out. These include the slums of Fuka- gawa, the industrial section of Honjo, both on the right bank of the Sumida River, Asakusa, f for its ment parks, Kyobashi and Nibonbashi which include most of modern Tokio, where four or five-storey buildings lined the principal thoroughfare, the Ginza, This section also includes Tsu- kiji, In which, before Japan was com- WHERE ITALY COMMITTED AN ACT OF WAR _ Corfu, a Greek island off Albania, has been bombarded and seized by Italian war ships with ten minutes' warning to the population. Half of the 60,000 population are Armenian and Greek refugees from Turkey. Italy's precipitate ation appears'to be'part of a plan to close the Adriatic sea, mak- of $250,000, 90 per eent. of which went to New York, London and Paris buy- rreat commercial port of Yoko-| pletely opened to the western nations,| ing it virtually an Italian lake. Janina, where the I nission was mur- 4 hy » * | foreigners were compelled to reside. oy is idl onthe map. ey tadian i ers, were sold at the opening of the © The loss of life is estimated at such| It has recently been occipied princi-|. fur auction Salers beaver, silver | shi 'warying figures, in some cases run-|pally by missionaries, their schools ; ; fox and bear was n demand, | of 'ming into htindreds of thousands, that| and hospitals. During the summer STRIKE OF 158 ,000 COAL MINE beaver wdvancing 20 Jer wat, silver any certainty of the casualty is im-|most of the Tsukijo residents are out ; bE A ox hh on EB a Htished Tn the Sudbury and| erage er literature of value to the reial interests. These they are. On the whole, the news received on Thursday is of a more hopeful nature _ than any since the disaster, one auth- oritative message from a British naval official at Yokohama placing the deaths of foreigners in that port at ; seventy and stating that all the for- i eigners in Tokio escaped. Even this "possible while communications with|of the city, but the loss of property devastated districts remain as has been heavy. In other sections of Tokio--Asabu, Shiba, Akasaka, Yotsuya and Ushigon --where the foreigners live in more or less isolated foreign compounds, consisting of a few western style houses built on small hills, the damage was by fire; which, on account of the number of open spaces, could be con- trolled. The foreign embassies and number of dead, which is small as bs compared with first reports, is enor-! mous for a foreign colony of a few thousands and indicates that the loss of life among the native population may reach the highest reported figures. The only official estimate is based oh Home Office information from Tokio that the loss of life there was 80,000, but Yokohama is known to have suffered much more severely than the capital city, and the Home Office figures do not attempt to take into consideration the one hundred miles of coast-line towns and villages, all in the path of the tidal wave. All available information shows that Tokio and Yokohama were not totally destroyed, the foreign residen- tial district of the port city, which is on a high bluff overlooking the bay, suffering comparatively little damage, while the residential suburban dis- tricts of Tokio also escaped. This 'would account. for the few deaths am- ong the foreigners there, for on Sat- urday on few would have been legal centres were widely scattered throughout the higher districts of Tokio, and a number of them, includ- ing the United States Embassy, have | been destroyed. A later despatch from London says: --With communication between the devastated earthquake districts of Tokio and the Southern Japanese | ports of Kobe and Osaka partially restored by airplanes and road trans- port along the Takaido route and with the pick of Japan's well-trained army divisions, which have been converging on the ruined capital since Sunday, exerting discipline to restore order among the hundreds of thousands of homeless, news from Japan begins to give some definite idea of the loss of foreign life. There are approximate- ly 100 dead or reported missing, half of whom are British, but the Japanese Government representatives here are still uninformed as to the number of Japanese who perished through the earthquake, fire and deluge. It is certain, however, that the death list will not exceed 50,000, if it reaches that figure. WORKERS COMES TO AN END 5% Algoma districts, where 1,046 square |! A despatch from Harrisburg says:--Governor Pinchot's labors to bring about peace in the anthracite miners' strike were rewarded on Fri- day evening, when officials of the Miners' Union accepted his peace pro- posals. The strike of 158,000 workers, which began September 1, is virtually at-an-end: The miners dropped their demand for the check-off and more than a 10 per cent. increase for day laborers. Joint negotiations for a new contract began at 7 o'clock Friday evening at the State House. As soon as the con- tract is ready it will be presented for formal ratification to a tri-district convention of union delegates at Seranton or Wilkes-Barre. Ratifica- tion is expected. The formal order calling off the strike will then be is- sued. No predictions could be made at present as to when the men would return to work, but it is believed here that coal-digging will be resumed in about 10 days. "There is ne point of dispute re- maining between the two sides which is in any 'way likely to justify a con- tinuation of the'strike," said Governor Pinchot, in making the formal an- nouncement that the miners had fol- lowed the operators in accepting his peace plan, John L. Lewis, President of the Un~ ited Mine Workers, said that Governor Pinchot was entitled to the praise of the American people "for the present happy termination of an unfortunate situation." Acceptance of the Pinchot proposal was unanimous by the Sub-scale Com- mittee 'and the Full Scale Committee of the miner's meeting Friday. The former consists of Mr. Lewis, Inter- national President; Vice-President Philip Murray, and District Presi- dents Thos. C. Kennedy, C. J. Golden and Rinaldo Cappélini. The Full Scale Committee is com- posed of 30 officers of local unions. she left him in the sleeping bag and put up another tent fifty feet away. Last December, Ada said, Knight and two other men started for the mainland, but through some mistake landed near Perald Island, and after two weeks returned to Wrangel Knight was too ill to travel. Craw- ford, Maurer and Galle started for The Week's rks TORONTO. Manitoba wheat--No. 1 Northern, $1.27%. Manitoba barley--Nominal. All the above, track, bay ports. Am, corn--No, 2 yellow, $1.08. Barley --Nominal. Buckwheat---No. 2, nominal. Rye--No. 2, nominal. Peas--No. 2, nominal. Millfeed--Del., Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, bast shorts, 'per ton, $31; middlings, $87; good feed flour, $2.10, Ontario wheat--No. 2 white, noms inal. Ontario No. 2 white oats--Nominal. Ontario corn--Nomina Ontario flony.-Ninety per cent. Jat, in jute bags, Montreal, prompt shi ment, $4.60 to $4.70; Toronto basis, $4.50 to $4.60; bulk seaboard, $4.50. Manitoba flour--1st pats., in cotton sacks, $6.90 per bbl.; 2nd pats., $6.40. Cheese--New, lar 24% to 26e¢; twins, 26 to 26c; , 26 to 2Tc; Stiltons, 26 to 27c; Old, Stiltons, 83¢ twins, 83% to 84c. New Zealand ol cheese, 31 to 82e. Butter--Finest ¢reamery prints, 38 to 40c; ordinary creamery, 86 to 87c; No. 2, 84 to 36c. ; seconds, 28 to 29c. Wi New Miss Tremaine, on the staff of the Immigration Department at Quebec, caught by a photographer on duty at that port. Sister Tremaine is the dis- Eggs--Extras in cartons, 42 to 48c; tinguished Canadian who nursed King extras, 40 to 4lc; firsts; 86 to 87¢; G 3 his accident in France during the war. Live poultry--Sprin, hick 1bs. and over, 36¢; kere, 3 to 'available on | lar with the services which the 'Natural Resourees Intelligence Hf l Branch is able to render them. §{ WEST'S WHEAT CROP NOT OF BAD QUALITY But Outturn of Grain 'Will Exceed Anything Known ; in'Prairie's Past. A despatch from Winnipeg says:-- A yield of 452,508,169 bushels of wheat .from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta this year is predicted in the twentieth annual crop estimate of the Manitoba Free Press. Alberta leads the Prairie Provinces for production of wheat per acre, ac- cording to the estimate, with an aver- age yield of 25 bushels from 5,956,061 acres, the acreage issued by the Do- minion Government Statistical Bureau on August 11. The total Alberta wheat yield is estimated at 148,901,625 bushels. An average of 21 bushels per acre from 12,790,984 acres is predicted in Saskatchewan, with a total yield of 268,610,664 bushels. In Manitoba, where much damage has been caused by rust and sawfly, an average yield of 12 bushels is pre- dicted from 2,016,915 acres, the § in their office. Siberia, taking dog feed for seventeen days 'and very little other provisions. Ada said they, too, took. a wrong di- Li OF NATIONS SUCCEEDS IN rection, moving to the southeast as SETTLING ITALO-GREEK DIS AGREEMENT they passed forever from her vision. Britain Warns Soviet Not to Interfere With Wrangel 8 4 A 5 lbs. + do, Choice, $10 to $10.76; do, med.; $8 to | yield being estimated at 34 ! a Be Cae 8 to 4 Ibs. 17e; $10; do, com., $4 to 88; milch cows, | bushels. LW TE roosters, 16¢;" ucklings, over b Ibs, $60 to 31005 springets, $80 to Jue; The yields of coarse grains for the 22¢; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up, sheep, choice, §6; do, avy, $3 to $6;| prairie Provinces are estimated as foe, 1 Phd ai follows: Dressed poultry--Spring chickens, 3 81d._wethers, $2 L2D$ ULES : | % Ibs. and A tim 88c; chickens, 2 to 8 $1050 12 $10.75; So nons, -§8 to $9; . ri Do naabans bushels} Barley: Ibs,, 6c; hens, over 5 Ibs., 80c; do, 4 hogs, flat rates, $10.85. : hs A gg BR Ls to he. 28¢; do, 3 to 4 Ibs., 20¢; roost- Quotations, fed and water basis: | bushels, and flax, 7,193,026 bushels. ers, 18¢; ducklings, over 5 lbs, 28¢; Select bacon, $11.40 to $11.90; thick The growing season of 1923 has do, 4 to b lbs., 26¢; turkeys, young, 10 smooths, $10.35 to $10.85; lights, | been a particularly trying one in many 1bs. and up, 30¢. $7.40; heavies; $0.40; sows, $6.90. regpects, the newspaper says, and : 3 Bead = yddian, 'handpicked, Ib! 7 MONTREAL. "| while the out-turn of grain will be '¢; primes, 6%c. Corn, Am. No. 2 yellow, $1.04 to| very much the largest in the history due er imp. $1.05. Oats, Can. Wott, No. WIL to| of Western Canada, it will not be as 26¢. A despatch from Geneva says:--| portant, who argue that without the There was an air of relief in Geneva | League the Ambassadors would never Friday evening at the news from have been able to impose such terms Paris that the Ambassadors have ac-|on Mussolini, who only. a week ago| A despatch from Moscow says:--In cepted the "unofficial" suggestions of | was refusing to-recopnize even their] reply to the nbte.sent by Foreign Min= the League Council for a settlement of | competence to deal with such a pri-| ister Tchitcherin to Great Britain pro- the Italo-Greek . dispute, which the| vate affair of Italy's. testing against the raising of the Italian representative on the Council,| Almost all are glad that so early| British flag on Wrangel Island by an aple gal, $2.60; per b- 2.40 per go do, Can. West. No. 8, 56 to 56%c; | satisfactory a crop to handle as many : Chief of Greek People i editi f Vilhjal Stef! 3 , 1b. A ; and M. Hanota, for France, Thutsday in 'its career the League has been| expedition of Vilhjalmur ansson,| premier Col. Gondtas, whose- reply |88k3 jnaple su i iT 11 to 12¢ per do, extra No. 1 feed, 55 to She; do, a one that has preceded it; neverthe- ; , evening prevented from being made spared the ordeal of such an open the explorer, Great Britain has in-|¢;, premier Mussolinl in reference to ner tins. 11 to 12c: B-lb. tins, No- 2docal white, 54 to 64%c. less the great volume of grain which x . ly H : i ; 1 : official. Signor Salandra formally re-| split with one of its original members| formed Russia that the expedition was| (ho demands of Italy for {ons . v Man. spring wheat pats., 1sts, $6.90; mon! fused to accept them, on the ground of | as would have happened if everybody |® Private affair, organized by Stefans- ang apologies sil the the 2 id 180; 250 uns A Pros Nob do, nds, $6.40; do, str tans in the isp 'of the will Doar the incompetence of the Council to| had not been awake to the danger of|S0n, 8nd that it does not touch the|ytaiian Mission in Albaniesinchides ac- $3.05 to $8.50, Gk ? 7 "86.20; do, Winter pats., choice, $5.75 airy to the ships must, even 'at pre- 'make them. Hanota wanted to have, the situation, and they are glad that| question of Russia's sovereign rights) ceptance of four of the seven articles. Smoked meta---Hals med: 27 16, 5 $5.85. Rolled ar. 50 Ibs, | Coiling prices rent an 'enormous them referred to his Government be-| time will be given for an academic| Over the island. However, any attempt| The other three are infringements of {29c; hats. dB to 465s smoked To.20s Bran, $28.25. rts, $81.25. Ee of rT irr acind * Jore he would accept them. His Gov-| discussion of the League's competence, | PY Russia to hamper the work of the| Geel sovereignity, he declares. rolls, 22 to 2de; cottage rolls, 28 to G No. A a ota a to] - The loss from rust in 'Manitoba, ernment and the Government of Ttaly,| which otherwise would have been far| expedition would be viewed by Great ERE Rg 26c; breakfast bacon, 80 to 84c; s pam "Butter, choicest a 3s more especially, has been heavy, ve in the persons of their representatives| too burning a matter for so young an| Britain with utmost gravity, the note Le A oy cial brand breakfast bacon, 34 to 38c; 355%c. Eggs, elected. 400. =~ | heavy: there Yan boen Joss in all ory 'on the Ambassadors' Conference, have| organisation. says. In a sly to Great Britain, M.| league Accepts Erin's backs, boneless, 82 to 38c. % dairy 38 4 50: vgs ro as d ose na. ne Application for Admission| Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 50 Com, dairy cows, §2 to $3.50; gom.| provinces from undue heat just as to 70 Ibs,, $18; 70 to 90 lbs., $17.50; | bulls, $2 to jas 3 veal calves, | the heads of wheat appeared from the 90 Ibs. and up, $16.50; lightweight $8; med. sue to $7; | shot blade; there has been some loss in now accepted them. Poincare will act ---- Tchitcherin accepts the explanation. on the suggestions of the League with- HOW FOUR PERISHED He declares, however, that co-ordina- out having openly to admit that the League had anything to do with a set- - tlement, and Mussolini will accept the 'terms of the League handed on by the Ambassadors without having to ad- mit that they are League terms. " And so everything is likely to be settled and the ground cleared of the 'actual case in question when the ques- 'tion comes up for settlement, by the 'Council and by the League, of its ~ competence to deal with such a situa- "Hlon' as that which so disturbed its "tranquility all this week. ~All but the most ardent supporters of League prestige appear satisfied th this arrangement. There are 'some, of course, who fear that the mbagsadors will have all the credit the League none. There are and they are not the least im- N ON WRANGEL ISLAND Eskimo Woman Sole Survivor of Expedition Headed by Allan Crawford, Toronto. A despatch from Nome, Alaska, says:--An Eskimo woman, sole sur- vivor of the Crawford expedition, which left here for Wrangel Island, off' the northern coast of Siberia, in the fall of 1021, described the fate of the four white men composing the ex- pedition. The trip was arranged by i Vilhjalmur Stefansson, with the prin- cipal object of raising the British flag over the island, which had been claim- 'ed by the Soviet government. Three of the party--Allan Craw- 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, Lorne E. Knight, McMinnville, Ore., died of scurvy June 20, 1923, and his body was brought back by the relief expe- dition, headed by Captain Harold | Noice, which left here August 3. Cap- tain Noice said his power schooner, the Donaldson, had little trouble i | reaching the island. . The first evidence of the missing containing the names of the party | | with the declaration that they elaimed| Wrangel Island in the name of King| George of Great Britain. Ada fainted when she saw the men aldson near by. his sleeping bag. Ada said done all the hunting and Had rty found by Captain Noice's expe-| . dition was a bottle in a deserted camp, | tale of the disaster. Di-| Ada, Noice' found Knight! tion between the countries concerned] A despatch from Geneva says:-- rolls, in. barrels, $86; heavyweight od ' must exist when the sovereign rights of one State are at issue, Tchitcherin's note to Great Britain said Wrangel Island had been incor- porated into Russia's territory in 1821-24, that Russia had built light- houses #nd other works there, and in 1916 formally notified all allied and neutral Governments that the island was an integral part of Russian terri- tory. The note added that the Soviet Government regarded the raising of the British flag there as.a violation of Russian sovereign rights. The only work done by the League of Nations on Friday was by committees. As foreseen, the committee to examine the claims of applicant powers accept- ed the demand of the Irish Free State for admission, and tejected that of Abyssinia, on the ground that that independent African kingdom was not free from the stain of slave traffic, which no League member should allow to blotch his escutcheon. SRIRNR grad = % Starting life in a workhouse, a girl has just taken her B.A. degree at Bir- mingham University. 1s, $83. 'Lard--Pure tierces, 16 to 16%c; tubs, 16% to 17c; pails, A7 to 17%e; prints, 18%c. Sholtening, tierces, 14 to 14%ec; tubs, 14% to 14%c; 'pails, 14% to 16%ec; prints, 17 to 17%c. Heavy steers, choice, $8 to $8.50; heavy steers, good, $7 to $8; butcher steers, choice, $6.50 to $7; do; good, $6 to $6.50; do, med., $56.50 to $6.50; do, com., $4 to $5; baby beeves, $8.5 $9.50; cows, fat choice, $4 to $4.75; do, med., $3 to $3.75; do, canners ] Sutters, $1.25 to $2; bulls, butcher, good, $4 to $4.50; feeding steers, l, $5.50 to $6.25; stockers, $4 to bulls, butcher, $4 to $4.50; calves, A despatch from Wellington, New Zealand, says:--Penny postage is be- ntroduced in this country, be- ginning on. October 1. The first tem- 0{ porary loss of revenue as a result of 1 reductions is esti- ie Go décided about three months ago to reduce the postage to north." ei Elo a : i ungraded. hogs, | 311 the provinces from sawfly and from two somewhat new enemies, namely, glume blotch and root rot," the news- paper states in reviewing the growing conditions of 1928. ol Coarse. grains are on the whole a pretty satisfactory crop, the report says. Winter rye 18 possibly the most disappointing, as many splendid stands did not fill well and the sample is less plttmp than usual, "The wheat crop of 1923 is not a number one northern crop in any of the provinces," the report sa "though there will be number northern from all of them. This it is quite probable that Alberta will - lead, though in view of the uneven ripening due to continued rains the percentage 'of number one northern will not be in proportion to the actual weight. per bushel of the grain from 2 _| that provinee, which will be extremely heavy. more especially from: the