Moscow, Sept. 19.
The All-Russian Central Executive Committee has issued the following communique with re+ gard to the earthquake sufferers in Japan:
(1)—Relief funds are to be handled.by the Central Committee for the assistance of the Japanese earthquake victims. The All Russian Central Exiecultive Committee are to make a subsidy of 200,000 gold roubles.
(2)—Exports to Japan to handled by the Central Com-~ mittee for the assistance of the Japanese earthquake victims are to be exempted from export duty.
(3)—Goods to be transported to Japan for relief-purposes are to be free from carriage and thd carriage of foreign goods to hi sent to Japan to be discounted.
(4)—Contributions to the relief funds are to be handled by al) national banks through thd country.
(5)—Fish now in the possession of persons engaged in fishery, or of the fishing societies in the Far East, shall be sent to Japan for the relief of the Japanese earthquake sufferers.
(6)—Rights and privilege of cutting down the forests and of fishery lots in the Far East are to be accorded to the labour classes of the Japanese earthquefka sufferers under very fav-~ ourable conditions.—Eastern News Agency.
London, Sept. 21.
The Soviet Telegraph Agency reports from Moscow that the refusal to admit Russian ships to Japan has amazed the work: ers. The "Rabotchaya Gazette'' says that the Russian workers' organizations-will still try td continue their relief work. The "Pravda declares that the Japanese Government prefers to admit American torpedo-boats rather than Russian grain.—~ Reuter.
Osaka, Sept. 22.
The Japanese Government -fully intended to accept the offer of relief supplies from the str. Lenin, the "Mainichi" reliably reports, but the Naval authorities at Yokohama refused permission to the steamer to unload. The "Mainichi," quoting a Russian professor of Vladi+ vostok, who was on board the Lenin at the time and who hag arrived in Japan, on the other hand, says that the action of the authorities was due rather to indiscreet remarks of the Russian delegate on board anent the purpose of the visit than to belief that propaganda was on Regret is generally expressed here at the incident.
Sept. 22.
Ordinary mail communications with the capital were opened to-day. Up to the present mail has been carried in very limited quantities by air.—Reuter.
CONSERVING MATERIALS, Tokio, Sept. 22.
The Reconstruction Commission met for the first time yesterday. It is reported that the Commission has decided on the issue of an edict empowering the Government to buy and sell building material and daily necessaries to the value of Y. 100,000,000 and to prohibit at its discretion the export of these commodities.
The authorities are reported to be undertaking the immediate survey of Yokohama Harbour with a view to making repairs. It is estimated that the expendture will amount to Y. 10,000,000—Reuter.
London, Sept. 21.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued an appeal for sup-ort of the Japanese earthquake unds, Sept. 22.
The Lord Mayor's Japanese relief fund is now £200,000. To day's donations included £550 from the dancer, Mme. Pavlova, and £40 from two fishing villages in Cornwall.—Reuter.
Paris, Sept. 21.
The Municipal Council is contribution 100,000 francs to the Japanese earthquake funds. Sept. 22.
The fund up to the present amounts to [478,000 francs.—Reuter.
Melbourne, Sept. 22.
The Japanese relief fund has reached £60,000.—Reuter.
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