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Show TOKIOEPIDEfl LIES SPEEDY -RELIEF-VITIi Ambassador Woods Re-, Re-, ports Necessity of $1.-000,000 $1.-000,000 for Purchase of Medicine . and Food WASHINGTON. Rapt. II. Rt-portlng Rt-portlng that an apldsmla af favor had brakaa aat in Toklo, Ambassador Ambas-sador Woods. In a cabla to tha suta dapartmant today, aald It waa Imparatlva that . ana million dollar of Amarleaa Rod Cross funds ba placed Immediately at the d tepees! of Its relief committee commit-tee In Japan for tho gulch purchase pur-chase of medloaj supplies aad food from nearby markets. TOKIO.- Sept. ) (By A. P. fear of typhoid and other epidemics epidem-ics In Toklo has caused American physicians herev to advice their nationals to Isavs tha ally anless thslr baslnsss In tha capital Is moot urgent. Whlls the water supply Is rapidly being brought back la normal by the efforts of the Japanese government, conditions condi-tions are stilt far from sanitary. There Is ths deepest spprsrlatlnn throughout Japan for ths prom nt rssponss from the United Htatee snd ether countries to the dletreaa of the thouaando of refugees. Admiral Ad-miral Anderson of the United teles Asiatic Toot la closely cooperating co-operating with Admiral Tsksrsbe. mlntstsr of marine. In the work of relief. A number of Biitleh ships have already arrived with food Sod SAsdtrsI Suppllss. - Ths sfflclsncy of ths Japanese military ooatrol In enlletlng ths oooptrarlon of tha elvil authorities authori-ties Is Increasingly evident. Order has been restored throughout and tha work now- ie along ths Unas of relief end reonnstruotlon. While the weather le extremely hot and there are eecaalonal eerth shocks, ths work of rebuilding the destroyed sections sf tha cily is already al-ready starting. It la announced that H Q. Parian, Par-ian, eouneellor of the Britleh embassy, em-bassy, for whose safety eoms aa-prehension aa-prehension was fslt, la alive and uaharmed. |