Peking, June 18.
Prague is the new centre of Russian Social Revolutionary pubplicity. Russians in Peking have received the first copies of a paper called The Will of Russia," which reveals the fact that many of the former enemies of the Imperial végime who united in Siberia to fight the Communists and subsequently passed through China after the collapse of the Koldfak armies, are resident in the Bohé- mian capital and are interested in the new organ. Copies which have arrived contain articles by Kerensky, who functions as a contributing' editor.
In the news columns a great deal is said of a peasant leader named Antonoff, hitherto unheard of in the Far East, for whom a large following and great influence in northern Russia and Siberia are claimed. To him are attributed many of the revolts which are described in Far Eastern reports as "reactionary" and which are generally attributed to various discredited ''white" leaders.
AxcornpDinc to the "Shanghai Journal of Commerce" 'a native goods exhibition will be held in Foochow during August and! will continue. for one month. Local merchants have been requested to send in goods for exhibition, but these must reach Foochow on or before July 19. It is proposed to have a permanent museum following the exhibition. is one of utter confusion, Three thousand people are housed in temples and primary schools and all are without food. Some are weeping over their dead while others are out in boats searching for bodies.
Lumber to the value of" Yen 1,000,000 has been cartied away and some merchants are now endeavouring to corner all the remaining lumber. The damage in this district alone is estimated at over Yen 20,000,000. All the factories and mines in Kiushw have been flooded and destroyed, the crops are ruined and bridges and railways have been washed away.—Reuter.
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Tokio, June 23.
The following returns are made to the Department of Home Affairs of the damage caused by the floods in North Kiushiu: In Oita Prefecture up to the 22nd instant, dead, 83; wounded, 9; houses washed_away, 353; houses partly ~destroyed, 204; horses and cattle kill-
In Fukuoka Prefecture up to the gard, dead, 12; men missing, 4; wounded, 10; houses washed away, 232; houses totally destroyed, 85; houses partly destroyed; 183.
The damage done to bridges, embankments and fields is as yet beyond estimation.—Eastern News Agency.
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