1923-09-10 — Page 9

MONDAY BEPTEMBER 10, 1925

THE JAPAN DISASTER.

TERRIBLE TALES OF SUFFERING. YOKOHAMA WORSE THAN TOKYO,

VIVID STORIES BY SURVIVORS.

(Renter's Service to the China Mail)

NAGASAKI, September 10.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

FRENCH AND AUSTRALIAN SYMPATHY, .

PARIS, September 9. In his speech a'tHaudainville President Poincaré expressed France's sympathy with Japan declaring that whon Frenchmen learned of the

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fremendous stampede, in which thousands died by being trampled by The only casualty in the American Embassy staff is Miss Babbitt. the flow of men. This cyclone actually blew Kawashima to a point British naval wireless says that only one casualty, a German, is reported where there was a pool breast-deep of water, into which he plunged, from Miyanoshita. The Italian Consul, Signor Gasco, is now reported covering his head with a wadded cushion. So tremendous was the to be alive and on board an Italian warship. The Dutch Consul was volume of flame thata shower of great pieces of burning wood and iron among those who were instantly killed at Yokohama, roasted many thousands alive. He did not know what had happened,

DAMAGE AND CASUALTIES. until next morning, when he was rescued by the troops. Together Reuter's correspondent wires: Despite reports to the contrary there were 20 or 30 in the whole compound, which was covered with prevalent in China, the Government continues to function not from nothing but half-burned corpscs.

Osaka but from Tokyo. Precisely where it is functioning there is un- known here. Apart from sea and aeroplane there is practically no communication with the capital, and all estimates of the amount of the damage and the number of victims are highly speculative; but, from all accounts, the figures of one hundred and fifty thousand killed and

bined are probably not far off the mark. The latest official estimates Jan. of hameless in Tokyo alone are one million three hundred and fifty thousand and in Yokohama four hundred thousand. I find that some of the earlier wireless reports of the amount of destruction are not quite correct. For example, the Imperial University is not wholly Feb. 8.-P. & O. destroyed and that architecturally unique structure the Imperial Hotel is still standing In the great conflagration succeeding the earthquake, apart from the losses of public buildings, numerous price- less art collections were obliterated. The fate of Doctor Morrison's famous library, which Baron Iwasaki presented to the Imperial Univer-

fire, which gutted that fine new residence. After one week of supreme sity, is unknown. If, as is believed, it was still being classified at Baron Iwasaki's Tokyo house, then it has probably been destroyed by

Mr. George Firth of Samuel, Samuel and Company, was lyingppalling cataclysm, they all remembered Japan's friendly afd in the three hundred thousand injured in Yokohama and Tokyo com-

war.

TOKYO LOSSES.

TOKYO, September 9.

and 40,000 injured. It is reported from New York that 21 Britishers It is officially stated that the casualties at Yokohama are 23,000 dead Tokyo are known to be dead or reported as missing.

slightly ill at his home beyond the Bluff, Yokohama, when the room

MELBOURNE, September, 9. careened and the house actually leaped from its foundation. Mr. Firth

Melbourne's relief efforts on behalf of the Japanese are actively staggered to the door amid falling window frames. Two children, eighteen months and three years of age, were playing with some progressing. There is a movement afoot for Australian children to Japanese children in a detached structure which collapsed. One collect relief for Japanese children. Prayers have been offered in the minute the house was there intact; the next it dissolved before my Churches for sufferers and collections have met with a generous eyes. Fissures opened in the earth and it seemed as if the whole side response. of the hill above was sliding upon me. The neighbouring house, built on a rock foundation, stood. The first shock lasted perhaps three minutes, though it seemned hours. The children were pinned beneath the wreckage but not hurt. I had time to get them out before the second severe shock. There were at least five within fifteen minutes;) then at intervals the whole afternoon and night. I took the children into the garden, which was soon filled by Japanese scurrying in every direction and carrying bundles. However all were calm and unexciti ed. Meantime Yokohama was a roaring furnace below the Bluff with the explosions evidently of the underground gasoline tanks. Nothing was burned on the hill. The fire stopped at the gate of the temple just below. We lay all night in the garden on mattresses saved from the wreckage. The first shocks were accompanied by a lowering like a heavy wind though the day was beautifully quiet. On Sunday morn- ing there was a beautiful sunrise. The flames seemed subdued but suddenly started afresh and within an hour the air was full of flames and smoke again. The flames seemed to jump wide spaces attacking detached houses particularly; nothing escaped

BANK OF JAPAN TO HELP.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS,

RIVAL TO BUDDHIST HELL.

GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS.

KOOK, September 9.

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effort throughout the country conditions in Tokyo show a remarkable improvement. The supply of enough food to go around among the victine is now practically assured; but clothing is still wanted, especi-opt. cally in view of the cool weather coming. The great problem yet to be solved is the housing of millions. This is particularly pressing. because rainfall is most frequent in Japan. The exodus from Tokyo by rail and sea numbers thousands every day, who seek shelter with friends and relatives in the unaffected zone, but it is believed that barracks must be built in Tokyo for one million homeless. Martial law continues in Tokyo, Yokohama and surrounding district, and Peace and order are well maintained.

SCIENTIFIC THEORIES.

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Caledonia, Atreua.

Nellore Toiroslas Adrastas.

Hlotila.

Obilo Mulwa. Mechava.

Oza Nyanza. Kalyan,

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Sarpodon.

Devanba

C. Loper Y Lopez. Kaiser-1-Wind. Patroclus. Khira.

Asis. Maco-lonia, Kasbgar.

China.

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Kalyan.

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CHILIPPINE VILANDO, IUI,

MANITA.

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́SANDAKAN,

Stories of survivors arriving by the "Empress of Australia" from Yokohama depict scenes rivalling in borror the popular repre- sentations of the Buddhist Hell. Business men were about to leave their offices at the close of the mor..ing's work when suddenly, without The Central Observatory in Tokyo has just announced that the first There are various theories as to the precise cause of the catastrophe.

OSAKA, September 9,

warning and with a tremendous roar, the ground heaved from four to earthquake on Saturday originated from a landslip under the sea half- five feet, falling down again. The shock lasted for thirty seconds. way between Atami Hot Spring and Oshima Island, off the coast of Reuter understands that the Bank of Japan will offer financial help All foreign buildings crumpled up like paper. Houses on the Bluff Idzu Peninsula. (Incidentally the same Observatory states that the to the banks throughout the country. The Bank of Japan in Tokyo were precipitated headlong into the city, while huge crevasses gaped in islands off Idzu Peninsula are at present showing signs of cruption, and holds unissued notes Y 200,000,000, recovered notes Y100,000,000, mak- the ground, which rocked, heaved and swayed like the waves of the Professor Nakamura of the Imperial Observatory is hurrying thither on ing a total of Y300,000,000, which the Bank is ready to place at the sea. Fugitives fleeing from falling buildings found their way blocked by board a destroyer to make observations). On the other hand, the Chief disposal of bankers to enable them to help the sufferers. At present, the huge gaping holes, some of which were capable of completely burying of the Osaka Observatory thinks that the first shock was due to the Jan. 11.-H. A.E. bankers in Tokyo are paying out daily sums not exceeding one hundred horse and a cart. Immediately afterwards big fires began, the flames, contraction of the earth's crust practically in the centre of the Tokyo Feb. 28.-H.A.L. yen, totalling on the average four or five million you. Operations are fanned by a rising wind, rapidly spreading until the city seemed district at the same place where it contracted with such disastrous con- continuing in Osaka and elsewhere for which the Osaka Branch of the to be enveloped in a vast cloak of fame. Smoke from the burning sequences in 1856. The other theory is that the whole series of earth- Bank of Japan has decided to render all possible assistance to private buildings at first obscured the sight, but was later cleared by the wind,quakes was due to the volcanic activity of what is known as the volcanic Seut. 1.-1.0.A.N. Hingang. bankers and thus help commercial and industrial activities. It is believ-enabling the survivors to behold the devastation of their homes. Thous range of mountains, including Fuji, Hakone and the Idzu Peninsula ed this decision has not only inspired confidence, but will materially ands of Japanese rushed into Yokohama Park seeking safety in the group. The shape of Fuji has changed, a fact that was not observable CEBU, ILOILO & ZAMBOANGA help the work of reconstruction. It is reported that Government has

open spaces. An added terror was the rising water from the burst already appropriated Y9,600,000 for relief. The Government is prepared waterwmains which, with the fire, blocked all exits from the City. Many till to-day, owing to its having been in the clouds since the earthquake Sept. 11. U.3.5.8. to pay out relief funds as required up to Y5,000,000,000, representing the hundreds sought to escape a fiery death by rushing towards the Motom

JAVA PORTS, 116, available surplus. If necessary a further Y120,000,000, representing the achi Canal, hoping to find refuge on the other side; but the flames The area of Tokyo swept by fire, which destroyed over three mint profit from recoinage will also be used. In the course of an inter drifted across the Canal, setting fire to houses on the opposite bank, hundred thousand houses and public buildings, includes the following | Sept. 11.-J.C.J.L view, the Minister of Fi sunce is reported to have said that it is possible Some, who were endeavouring to cross on wooden lighters, were over-wards which, as marked on the map, gives a good idea of the enormous Japan may find it necessary to seck a loan abroad for reconstruction,

taken by blazing oil which was flowing from exploded oil tanks, and extent of the destruction. REFUGEES AT KOBE.

met with a terrible death. Others, panic striken, flung themselves into the water, meeting a like fate. The Canal was choked with floating corpses, People feapt into the sea from the waterfront and waded out the blazing ruins, amongst which lay the charred corpses of hundreds ia an endeavour to escape the deluge of red-hot cinders streaming from

INTERRUPTED LEAVE-TAKING.

DEVASTATED AREAS.

Where nearly every structure was destroyed: Fukagawa, Honjo, Asakusa (where the famous Kwannon temple alone remains standing), Shitaya, Nihonbashi, Kanda, Kyobashi (the Hima Imperial Villa was not destroyed) and Shiba.

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Partially destroyed: Akısaka, Kojimachi, Hongo. Slightly damaged: Yotsuya, Azaku, Ushigome, Koishigawa. It is understood that the experts of the Home Department have al- ready decided on a general plan of reconstruction of the Empire's capital. According to the latest report, seventy-one per cent. of Tokyo's buildings are damaged, barned or destroyed, while sixty-seven per cent. of Tokyo's population are affected.

Baroa Sumitomo has contributed two and half million yen to the relief fund.

RELIEF EFFORTS.

14.-K P.M.

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West Farulon.

Tjikantang. Van Uverstraten. Thitaroom.

Mrivo Maru

10.–Nauyo Y. K. Cheribon Marg,

INDIAN PORTS, STO.

CALCUTTA

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Jana.

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Tania.

Takada.

PENANG.

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KOBE, September 9. The town is crowded with refugees from the earthquake area, M. Louis Jedenkin, agent for watches, had a typical experience at Yoko hama. He said: "1 was just entering my office in the centre of the Foreignof victims. Settlement al twelve o'cinck when the building begin tasway. Istood in the doorway, which is considered the safest place. Eight others were there. Then came an awful shock. We fell but got up again. The British colony were gathered at noon on the jetty alongside The building, which was a Japanese structure, did not fall. We went the s.s. "Empress of Australia,bidding farewell to the outgoing out. Houses were down all around us. We rushed off to find my wife passengers, when the mole humped its back like a caterpillar. In who had been shopping. 1 had to walk over collapsed rools through several places it rose thirty feet in the air and subsided and rose again, chuking dust. Thousands were doing the same, searching for relatives, finally collapsing into the sea: Some were flung off into the sea and Hundreds were pinned under the debris. I heard a man scream and clung to fragments of floating wood. Others, more fortunate, were found he was a friend with a broken leg from which the bones were taken off by boats from the "Empress of Australia," the "Andre Lebon" sticking out at the ankle. He cried for water but there was no water.and the "President Jefferson," the courage of whose crews is enthusi-

LONDON, September 8. The Manchester Guardian in a special article on Japan's place Heads, arms and legs were poping out from the debris everywhere, astically lauded by the survivors. At the first shock the great oiltanks on Numerous Japanese were rescuing their children. I proceeded along the hillside above Yokosuka NavalStation exploded, and millions of tons among the Powers says there does not appear to be any reason for ex- the Bund when fire, which hitherto had only been here and, there broke (?) of oil swept down upon the city, metamorphosising the harbour into treme pessimism regarding the future of the Japanese. They are not out carnest. Thousands rushed into the sea to avoid the awful wind-a sea of flame. The walls of Negishi prison collapsed and five thousand the sort of people to sit down weeping in hopeless despair. The writer driven heat. Among them I noticed Mr. Edwards, sub manager of the convicts were released, the most desperate of whom sought to profit confidently opines that within five years a new Tokyo and Yokohama Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, with his hand clean off and the stump from the calamity by looting. There were many cases of robbing and will arise on the ruins, with long overdue improvements making a real of his arm bleeding profusely.

murdering the disabled, but hastily formed bodies of citizens hunted credit to the country. The correspondent of the Observer in Berlin out the miscreants and exacted a sunimary death penalty. The Ameri- says that the catastrophe in Japan has had political effects in Germany, can hospital is reported to have been hurled from the Bluff to the where dreams had been visualised of a Russo-Japanese alliance de Cemetery, tearing open the earth and exhuming the corpses.

signed to unite Germany, Russia and Japan in a powerful political Sept. 1.-N.T.K. combination. He declares that the disaster has dashed these hopes, In a leader the Observer emphatically refuses to believe the suggestion that Japan's position as a world power will suffer any eclipse. To doubt The death roll at Yokohama among foreigners would have been that she will recover as surely, swiftly and completely as California greater but for the hundreds who crowded on the "Empress of Australia", recovered is to deny the modern miracle, which the power of Japan while she was standing at the quay ready to depart. At twelve noon, presents. just when she was due to leave, the first shock occurred.

There was

Moscow, September 8, rush for her by the big crowds, most of whom fortunately were able The Russian Academy of Sciences is about to send an expedition to board her. The quay subsequently sank, was partially submerged

to Japan. and in places collapsed. Soundings yesterday show the sea bottom of

MELBOURNE, September 8. the harbour to be several feet lower. A meeting of American, British

The Japan Relief Fund organised by the Melbourne Argus has and Japanese officials took place aboard an American warship. reached eleven thousand pounds sterling. Permission was granted to bury foreign dead, but only after cremation.

LONDON, September 8. All Japanese dead have been cremated on wood piles in the streets of

H.M. the Queen has donated two hundred and fifty pounds sterling Tokyo and Yokohama. Foreign dyad are being similarly buraed.........

to the Lord Mayor's Japanese fund. WHILE ROME BURNED.

SEARCH FOR RELATIVES.

The numerous foreigners were asking for their wives. The Grand Hotel did not completely collapse, but I saw it consumed in less that ten minutes by fire. Everybody was now mushing to the sea to avoid the heat. Thousand were in the water some swimming to various boats, some lying at the edge, some in up to the neck with hands over face or bead 10 protect it from the heat of the burning City. Covering my face with my coat, I came out of the water to have a final search for my wife. Just here I met George Komor of Kulin and Konor Limited, standing op- posite his tumbledown house near what had been the Grand Hotel. He was shouting something very loud. I went close to him and listened. This is what he was shouting Toffer Y10,000 to anyone who gets out my wife. He was standing waist-deep in the debris and dust pointing towards a woman's head sticking out high up from a pile of wood. The body was pinned and couldn't move. She saw her husband but it was utterly impossible to get near her. The fire was coming on fast on both sides. It swept up and soon caught the wood pile. The poor woman was consumed before our eyes.

A FRUITLESS SEARCH.

CREMATION IN STREETS.

OSAKA, September 9.

TYPHOON WARNING.

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS AND PASSENGERS.

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Nagato Maro Lake Fielding.

Terda.

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Legazpi,

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ACETRALIAN PORTS.

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Nov. 3.-E.A. Dec. 1.-R. & A. Jan. 5.-E. & A. Feb. 2.-E. & A.

CAPAN

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HELSINGFORS, September 8. The inmates of the Marunouchi building, one of the highest in

A fund is shortly being opened for the relief of distress ist Japan. Sept. 18.-O. N.C. Tokyo, had lucky escapes. The huge structure swayed, but did not

LONDON, Septembar 8. "We could distinctly hear her cries for help to the last. I resumed come down. It is believed to be now leaning somewhat. The following The Lord Mayor's fund now amounts 10 £70,000. The first justal- my search for my wife. As I walked by the side of the creek, the story is told me by a creditable person: When the first slrock occurred, ment of £36,000 has already been banded to the Japanese Ambassador. smoke was terrible. Dead and dying were everywhere. I then met aa dentist on one of the upper stories of this building was attending a friend who said he had seen my wife in the Park. I threw my arms patient's tooth. Both decided it was better to get to the ground floor around him and rushed to the Park. I met awful sights en route. Iquickly; but by the time they reached it the building had steadied itself. found thousands in the Park, which was surrounded on all four sides and feeling that they had disturbed themselves unduly, they decided to by burning buildings. It looked like becoming a dreadful trap. return to the dentist's room and finish the operation, which they did, in Hundreds collapsed; then Providence stepped in; the fountain pipes total ignorance of the catastrophe that had happened around them. burst in the Park and it was soon full of water almost waistdeep. What a God-send! I remained hours in the Park in the water. Every- The terrible experiences of a small band of foreigners, who were body had torn pieces off their clothes to cover their lands and face. To at Hakone have been described to me by a prominent British resident: wards night-time I heard an Englishman shouting'am here here to save At one minute to twelve," he said, there was a sound like the very you folk." I discovered he had come from the "Empress of Australia" heaviest thunder, then came the most dreadful earthquake shock on rescue work. Lasked him if he had rescued any foreign women; he imaginable. At the first sign of tremor my wife and I rushed for the said. Yes I just sent over a boat load of forty to the "Empress." He open door, but as we reached it the full shock was upon us and we were advited me to give up my search and go to the "Empress" to see if literally pitched across the road. We both got up together, then aƒ she was there. I went quickly aboard and scanned the faces of all second shock came and threw us again to the ground. Great fissures those forty women, but my wife was not there.

appeared, the ground seeming to tear itself open all over the place, but not deeply. We half crawled and half walked to a small plateau, where our children were, and remained there while shock succeeded

SAFE AT LAST.

EXPERIENCE AT HAKONE.

The following Telegrams were received by the local American Consulate General from the Manila, Observatory at noon to day:

1. Typhoon in about 129 deg. Long. E. 19 deg. Lat. N. direction unknown. 2.-Typhoon in about 144 deg. Long. E. 20 deg. Lit. N. direction unknown."

V. R. C.

"I will not describe to you the scenes on the "Empress of Austra-shock for four hours. Finally, we camped there. The children were Ha," Husbands were looking for their wives, and mothers were look-utterly panic stricken for the first few hours, but during the last' Mr. Don. G. Merle, the famous ing for their children and husbands. They did not interest me. Leaning hundred or so of shocks on the second day (there were over seven, magician, is to give an entertain- over the mail I saw what looked like another boatload of refugees coming hundred in forty-eight hours) they didn't mind in the least; indeed they ment at the V.R.C. on Wednesday I got near the gangway. When I discovered they were foreign women played through them without noticing them. It was most appallingly next to which the public will be you can imagine how I scanned their faces. When they had all passed awful time I've ever spent."

admitted. On Saturday the 15th on board I had recognised none of them as my wife. Then one came

inst there is to be another night slowly to me. It was she, but, oh so grey with dust and her eyes red

No description could do anything approaching justice to the awful fête. and swollen with the heat. She had been shopping in the Benten-dori experience of Yokohama, where the casualties are eighty percent. of the well-known shopping centre, when the first shock came. The shop the total population. The shock there was much worse than it was in collapsed, but nothing hit her. She got out between the rafters, and Tokyo. Hardly a wall is left standing. The streets are literally chok- had remained in the park for 12 hours, most of the time waist-deeped with dead bodies and debris. in the water, and then she was picked by a rescuer."

THOUSANDS ROASTED ALIVE.

OSAKA, September 10, It is now established that the major portion of the fatalities at Tokyo occurred at one place, namely, the military clothing depot at the Honjo ward, where over 30,000 perished.

The actual circumstances leading to this terrible tragedy are now described by a youth named Kawashima, who miraculously saved his life and reached Osaka, to-day.

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPES.

(Continued from Pago 7.)

SINGAPORE.

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Rumours were current in the After the first shock the place was "flat," said an American who Colony of a defeat of Sun's adber escaped. "It has hell let loose when the fire started. Then came half ents at Kow Kong. Far-reaching a cyclone with a gale blowing to scaward. We rushed into the sea to results were prodioted and risings Oct, 2.E. escape from burning and remained there for hours up to the neck. God in other parts of the province in an knows what the thousands of poor devils suffered, who were maimed anti-Bun coup were freely mention

¡ed. It is known definitely that one or pinned under the tumbled down buildings."

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There were some wonderful escapes. One foreign woman was in of the two pro-Sun commanders at a bath in the second storey of a two storey house. The place collapsed Kow Kong, arrived in Hongkong except the bathroom, which remained intact, enabling her to get out of last night. Kawashima said that he rushed to take refuge in the great open the window on to the street where some passing Japanese gave her his

Ernest William Moyers, an elec- space in the military clothes depot, over 10 acres, enclosed by brick kimono. The most remarkable case is that of a house on the Bluff. walls. On reaching there he found tens of thousands already The Bluff subsided bringing the house down, but the house itself did trician, of Southampton, who was gathered.

Late in the afternoon

not collapse till it had been several minutes on the grass a hundred contenced to twelve months' impri * terrific cast wind brought with it burning flames so

feet below. The inmates all had time to leave it. The Danish painter conmont hot even in this wide

at Bouthampton for rendezvous that the hair on their faces actually burned.

Juel, Madsen, who was employed by The Graphic of Londen, was killed attempting to obtain manoy by false Mev. 4.-B. B. Naturally there was a rush to the westward in the enclosed space, causing. are dead is incorrect. It is officially announced that they are safe.ng in a police sell at Winchester." at Kamakura. The report that the American Ambassador and his wife pretences, was found dead by hang

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Empress of Asia.

L-TEK. · Koros Maru.

4.-N.Y.K.

4.-A.O.L

16.-T.E.K.

17.-C.P.8.

17.-O.P.8. Dée 1.-B. B.

Iyo Mara.

Fros, Grant. Shingo Maru. Empress of Canada. Empress of Raasa. C. Lopes Y Lopez.

HONOLULU,

Sept. 16.---T.K.K. 217.-P. M.

24.-T. K. K. Dot. 25.-T.K.K. Nov 1.-R.K. 10.-T.K.E.

· Biberia Maru. Free. Lincoln. Thiyo Hara. Touyo Mara. Korea Maru.

Shinjo Maru.

VANCOUVER, ETC.

Achilles. Arabia Mara. Empress of Capula. Philoctetes.