Osaka, Sept, 25.
Reports published here, when ther based on actual survey or on conjecture it is impossible to say, state that the damage to the harbour in Yokohama is not so great as was at first anticipated. Though the breakwater has sunk a little more than 10ft., it is claimed that the foundations ate as firm as before, while the different anchorages inside the harbour are untouched, except for a rise in the bottom of the sea, in places as much as one foot.
As regards the wharves, it_is further claimed that those constructed of concrete suffered little damage from the quake, and that the necessary repairs have been or are being effected by the military engineers.
It is considered a matter of extreme urgency to push on the harbour repairs as rapidly as possible, not only to have a nearer port of discharge for the building material required by the destroyed cities and for relief supplies, but also to relieve the actual or threatened congestion at Kobe, where last Saturday there was sixty-five thousand tons of cargo awaiting discharge, with the prospect of a huge increase—amounting to over two hundred tons—in the present week.—Reuter, Tokio, Oct. 1.
The Government yesterday promulgated and simultaneously enforced an ordinance announcing the mitigation and remission of income, business, and success-sion taxes, as well as admitting of delay in the payment of the taxes above-mentioned for the devastated districts, namely, Tokio, Kanagawa, Chiba, Yama-nash and Shidzuoka Prefectures.—Eastern News Agency.
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