Japan experienced no less than 13 quakes during the past -month, a record for any such period, according to seismological records of the Central Motroloxical Observatory of Tokyo, However, the public have been assured that no cally severe earthquakes -will visit Japun in the near future. The strongest shock we have felt for time, in fact since the Tango quake along the Sea of Japan which occurred on March 23, 1925, set. The now barfatks will be ready towards the end of next month, Strange Moslem Rites Weird rites were performed here week when eleven Bashki to be a Turco-Tartar tribe fessing Mohammedanism, sacrificed cow in connection with -a special religious festival-calling for aliving sacrifice. The rite was ina city] abbatoir. There were brief prayers and, after the name of "Allah had been thrice invoked, the cow. whose feet were bound together was killed by slashing the throat with a andre-like knife.
Before the ceremony could be hold, a police license was necessary and' when one of the Bathkirs applied: to the Police;: mingled eonsternation and astonishment was evineed by the head of the Police Sanitary Board. It was-only after the official in question was assured that death would be instantaneous and that the sacrifice would take place in an authorized slaughter house that the permission sought was granted. The Bashkirs are said Ve Soviet subjects and number 16 in Tokyo.
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