JAPANESE DEATH ROLL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2779, 22 October 1923, Page 5

JAPANESE DEATH ROLL.

OFFICIAL LIST IL\S 150,000 NAMES. [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) TOKIO, Oct. ID. M. Goto announces that it is offiknown that the death roll in the earthquake and fires totals 150,000, while persons suffering properly dam. age number 2,874.000. Altogether 554,000 houses wore destroyed. IMASSAORE OF INNOCENTS. MANHOOD SUFFRAGE. (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) TOKIO, Oct. 19.

The committee of five Ministers, headed by M. Goto, will draft a manhood suffrage recommendation to the Government, which will probably be enacted this coming session. It opens the ballot to males 25 years of age, with no property. No other qualifications are necessary, and every elector will be eligible to office. It abolishes the majority restrictive qualification in the election of peers. Evidence is coming in on every side of the widespread massacres of innocent people during and after the earthquake excitement in the suburbs of Tokio. As many as 100 were slain at a time, including women. The killers were volunteer police, who became crazed by excitement. There were.instances of police wild were protecting refugees becoming the object of mob attacks. It is officially announced that the army earthquake losses total 182 million yen. APPRECIATION of CHURCH’S HELP. [Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH. Last Night. Archbishop Julius received the following cablegram from Japan: “Appreciate your sympathy. Have lost seventeen churches and fifty workers. 450 Christian families are homeless and have lost everything. Intense spiritual and physical suffering is be. fore us." ___