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HONGKONG, MONDAY, BEPTEMBER 3,
TERRIBLE DISASTER.
1928.
日三七月七亥癸次歲年二十個帶中位
FIRE FOLLOWS JAPAN EARTHQUAKE.
MANY CITIES IN RUINS.
TOKYO AND YOKOHAMA HARD HIT. (Router's Service to the China Mail.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2. A wireless message from Tomioka says that the Prince Regent of Japan and his household are safe. Seven hundred people were killed by the collapse of Asakusa Tower.
Many ships were lost in a tidal wave at Yoko-
hama.
AMONG THE INJURED.
Prince Matsukata, who is staying at Kamakura,
is reported to have been injured; also the Dowager Princess Kaya and Prince Takchito Yamashita.'
AMERICAN OFFER OF AID.
: DAIREN, September 2 The Commander of an American warship, which is now in port, has offered the Government the services of his ship and crew to assist in the. Frelief of Tokyo.
NAVY BUILDINGS SAFE
OSAKA, September 3
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A naval wireless message reports that the Navy Department buildings in Tokyo are safe. It is re- ported that martial law has also been proclaimed hi Yokohama.
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OSAKA, September 3. crnors of Osaka and
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Practically all the concrete buildings and brick buildings have collapsed. The Fukugawa Ward asked for.
was flooded by the tidal wave. It was difficult to The relief steamer fly over the city owing to the ffime and smoke. At "Chicago Mara is Nikko where His Majesty is staying it is reported being sent on that there is no serious damage. The Imperial Osaki this after-Household Department w is also burned.".
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NEWS FROM SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI, September 3.
Bulletins from Japan report that 100,000 people
have been demolish perished in Tokyo and Yokohama alone. An ex- ed; there have been plosion completely destroyed the arsenal, resulting hundreds of fatall-in several thousand casualties. Six hundred perished ties. There has been when. Japan's biggest railway tunnel at Sasako terrible havocat collapsed. many of the sun- mer resorts. At Atami there have been 600 fatalities. In Yoko hama the
casualties number ten thousand.
PEKING LEARNS NEWS.
PEKING, September, 2,
OFFICIAL JAPANESE DISPATCH,
A Japanese destroyer at Amoy picked up the following message, which was retransmitted by Mr. Sasaki, consul at Amoy, to Mr. Takahaski this afternoDR.
First information reached here 10p.m. Saturday. Many houses collapsed at the first shock and fire broke out in 24 different places in the city and is still tagtig. Imperial Palace caught fire. Fukas gawa district and Yokahim were completely de- stroyed. Shocks still belag felt.
A wireless message from Southern Japan ports that the earthquake has practically destroyed all cities, towns and villages between Tokyo and Osaka. A number of fires have been caused, ratayground. Dead bodies piled in hers. Mitsukoshi, of which are still burning.
Fukagawa and Seaja completely barat to the
Imperial Theatre, Central Police Station and Im Most of the big buildings in Tokyo have beca perial Palace completely gutted, destroyed. The Imperial Palace is in danger. The Whole city burning furiously. A later telegram fire in Tokyo is raging from end to end of the city-read: Tokyo, September a Kaijo Building (six. The streets are heaped with dead and at present itis impossible to estimate the casualties.
Yokohama suffered tremendously from the earthquake, while a tidal wave added to the terrors of the population, who are fleeing into the interior. Communication with Central Japan is entirely cut off.
OSAKA, September 2.
It is stated that Premier Yamamoto had a narrow escape, Reports coming in indicate that Yokoliam is now an immense mass of ruins. The harbour and dockyards are demolished. It is feared that the Navy Department in Tokyo, which fails to answer wireless calls, has been destroyed,
WIRELESS MESSAGES.
NEW YORK, September 3. Mengre reports by wireless indicate that there has been a very severe carthquake on the Eastern Coast of Japan at Hondo. The range of damage was apparently 300 miles from Osaka and Kobe, in the South, towards Sendai in the North This is the most thickly populated section of Japan.
storeys) completely collapsed, causing 10,000 casualties. Emperor and Empress, who are at Nikko, are safe. The Kashiko-Dokoro, part of the Imperial Palace, is safe.
Yokohama, September 2: The city is wholly wrecked and fires broke out in many places. Casualties are estimated at 5,000 €750,000)
Nagoya, September 2-City completely des. troyed (probably Yokoham is meant), Tokyo under martial law and no one allowed to enter the city. Foreign Ofice said to have been bacht down; report is not yet confirmed.
FOREIGN RESIDENTS FATE UNCERTAIN.
OSAKA, September 8.
The safety of the foreign diplomatic repre- sentatives is not know and there is no news con- cerning the foreign residents of Tokyo. It is reported that the Yokohama Specie Bank and the Grand Hotel were demolished. The damage to buildings in the foreign settlement is reported to have been particularly serions. The latest estimate puts the Yokohama casualties at over a hundred thousand.
A radio message from Tomioka contains the
It is reported that the Imperial Palace has first-hand story of a refugee from Tokyo. This man been thrown open to admit refugees. At a final says that the fire, which destroyed the Imperial Cabinet meeting yesterday morning Viscount, Theatre and many other large buildings, is spreading Uchida decided on the promulgation of martial law from Shenju towards Shinagawa, the southern most, an Emergency Commandeering Act and the point of the city. The flames, he says, are visible establishment of a relief bureau. seven miles distant from Tokyo. All the railway bridges in the city have been destroyed and the bulk of traffic has ceased. The number of the dead. and injured is incalculable.
EIGHT THOUSAND DEAD,
NAGASAKI, September 3. It is impossible to estimate the aggregate of casualties in all the affected districts. It must be remembered that in the great earthquake of 1856 the killed in Yedo (now Tokyo) alone numbered over 100,000. It is feared that the casualties in Tokyo this time are greater.
the Fuji Spinning It is reported that Mills. near Mount Fuji, collapsed and that 8,000, operatives perished.
At Hakone, the famous mountain resort, it is said to be easier to count the living than the dead.
Prince Salonji, who was staying at Gotemba, found safe refuge in a bamboo grove.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S SYMPATHY. NAGASAKI, September 3.
A wireless message intercepted at Sasbo states" that President Coolidge has sent a message of sympathy to the Emperor of Japan.
The Government, has issued an Emergency Commandeering Act.
Either the "Nagasaki Maru" or the "Shanghai Maru" will probaly be transferred to Kobe to assist in relief work. TOKYO HAY LIGHTHOUSES USELESS.
·NAGASAKI, 'September, 3-
A wireless message via Korea Maru states that alt light-houses in the Bay of Tokyo have been rendered useless at night time and navigation is dangerous.-..
TWO EARTHQUAKES RECORDED HERE.
A second, smaller earthquake was recorded on the afternoon of September 1, beginning at 15h. 43Ma and lasting until 165. 51m. The maximum move- meat, I min.s, occurred at 15h. 55m. Its origin was about 3,500 Ks. from Hongkong.
A number of volcanoes are reported as being active. There were several more shocks at Yokoh ama to-day at one o'clock, Tokyo is still burning and explosions are frequently heard. Nobody is allowed to enter Tokyo unless he carries with him A third, large earthquake was recorded on the a sufficient supply of food. A report from Odawara, morning of September 2, beginning at 11h. 53m. yesterday, stated that the town had been washed and ending at 13h 30m. The maximum movement, away by tidal waves. "It is now reported to be on fire. 175 mms, occurred at 12h 40m. Its origin was also
RELIEF WORK
about 3,500 Kms. from Hongkong. The Osaka Municipality has voted Y200,000 and Kobe Y100,000 for relief. The Tokyo Goverament has ordered the Osaka and Kobe Municipalities to send 500,000 Koku of rice within three days, War ships have been ordered to transport relief supplies to Tokyo. It is not expected that the fallway will be restored for some time; therefore relief must depend chiefly on the Navy.
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An olucer from the "London Miru," who went ashore at Yokohama, reported that dead bodies are scattered all over the place. Tons of thousands of rofugees are gathered in Yokohama, Parki
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LOCAL ANXIETY.
Naturally much anxiety is felt among the Japa hose residents in Hongkong, many of whom have districts stricken by the relatives in the carthquake Up to noon, the Japanese Con- sut-General, Mr. Takahashi, had received no official nows of the disaster, nor had any of the Japanese shipping companies received messages which could throw much light on the subject.
CALLS OF SYMPATHY.. Even the cruisers gagaged ly salvage work 91
Capt R A. R. Neville, MLL, Aide-do Camp submarine No. 76 have been ordered to participate to H E The Governor, called at the Imperial Ipa in relief work.
The Home Department has ordered the neighe Consulate Graneral this morning to express bouring Prefectures to move supplies of royalent Japan and to convey Six Reginald and Lady Stubbr the sympathy of the Colonial Government with to nearby port, whence warships, will undertakel personal regrets at learning of the disaster which the transportation to Tokyo The work of feeding and befallen the Japanese people. aver 2,000,000.inhabitants in Tokyo will call for dis supreme efforts of the whole nation.
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