Show JAPANESE FLOODS COST 1400 LIVES VICTORIA B B. C. C Sept 3 More More than 1400 lives were lost In the tho Japanese floods according to official reports received by bythe bythe bythe the Kamakura laru Maru yesterday In addition addition addition ad ad- several hundreds are reported missIng missIng missing miss- miss I Ing and it is believed they never never will be accounted for tr Arrivals by the steamer say the scenes scones in central Japan were of unparalleled misery and desolation M. M 1 L. L Ryan who took food tood to the Honjo district of ot Tokio says the official estimates of the deaths is far too low He Ho Hetes Hetes Hotes tes of finding houses where parties from from twenty t in number were cut off orr an and starving and that 1000 perished in this district aone aone In Senju district a number of people who climbed telegraph poles to escape tho the waters starved to death Relief parties parties parties par par- ties found the bodies of thirteen men and women tied with ropes to posts |