of Martyrs From Our Own Correspondent, Tokio, Mar. 10.
While it is possible, as time rolls on, to repair the enormous damages that fra and "quale wrought in Tokio and Yokohama, the country has suffered aa. it retrievable loss in the destruction Jof valuable manuscripta, records and libraries which can never be replaced.
The destruction of the Tokio Imperial University Library tone of the greatest losses" that} Japanese culture has sustained, the majority of the 700,000 odd books having been burt to cinders, Among the precious manus pts that have ben lost are the!
Richo Jitsuroku" or the annals the Yi dynasty of Korea; the "Yeiraku Taiten" or the records! of the Yung Lu ora in Chine; the Narvana Sutras in Sanskrit and in one of the Manchurian dia-Jeota; and the famous est 'Chief Engineer's Exploit in 13-ft.'
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.