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SHOCKS AND SUBSIDENCE. SHIPPING- DISORGANISED. DISSATISFIED SEAMEN. (Received 3 p.m.) TOKIO, November 9. The seamen's strike is increasing in strength. Strikers are demanding no cut in wages, better hours, larger bonuses, and dismissal of certain officials. The Government has warned the Company regarding mail necessities in view of the subsidy paid. The vessels now lai l up in port total 17. One cao»: of cholera is reported from Semba. The police are enforcing preventive measures. A land subsidence occurred at the village of Susaki in the Kagoshima Prefecture, about 2$ acres being affected. Sea water rushed in to a depth of five to eight fathoms. The people fled to the hills. No casualties are reported. Recently Kagoshima experienced two shocks.—Reuter. ' REDUCTION MADE GOOD. APPARENT SATISFACTION. i (Received 10.30 a.m.) TOKIO, November 11. The shipping strike has virtually ended. The Nippon Yusen Line has agreed to : make up the reduced wages. —A. and N.Z. | NAVAL EXPENDITURE. DRASTICALLY PRUNED. (Received 12.40 p.m.) TOKIO, November 11. Government Departments are protesting against drastic cuts in the estimates necessitated by the recent disaster. The Navy allotments have been reduced by 660 millions sterling. The contract for tffe cruiser Aoba has been abandoned and contracts for other warships will be probably aband'oned. —Sun.
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Northern Advocate, 12 November 1923, Page 5
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