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JAPAN DISASTER:
DEATH ROLL OF FOREIGNERS. WORLDWIDE SYMPATHY EVOKED,
HELP FROM ALL QUARTERS.
(leuter's Service to the Uhina Mail.)
NAGASAKI, September 5. Prominent foreigners reported dead at Yoko hama include:
are profoundly moved by the appalling disaster and recalls the great famine in the Volga Provinces in 1921. The Government has instructed Vladivostock to make all possible arrangements of relief and to offer every assistance to Japanese victims.
LIST OF AREAS HIT.
OSAKA, September 5,
Judging from the reports, now avaliable, the disaster affected the following ten prefectures in Tokyo: Kanagawa, Shidzuoka, Chiba, Yamanashi, Saltama, Ibaraki; Nagano, Gummia, and Tochigi, The total area is 20,000 square miles, the total population 15,000,000. The area includes big cities like Tokyo, Yokolania, Yokosuka and foreign tourist resorts like Yamakura, Hakone and Nikko.
The American acting Consul, Mr. Kirjassoff and his wife, the vice-Consul Mr. Jenkins, the com|... mercial attache, Mr. Babbitt, and his family.
The French consul-general, Mr. de Jardin, Mesers. Tait and McDouglass of the Chartered
Bank.
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Mr. I. C. Morrison, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
Mr. Mollison of Mollison and Company, and his wife.
The Reverend Father Le Babey.
Dr. Reidhaar.
Dr. Edwin Wheeler.
Mrs. M. E. E. Root.
Mrs. Mantel.
Miss Carmen.
Miss Nunes.
Miss Komor.
Miss Kathleen Robinson,
Miss Salade.
Miss Henriques.
BRITISH AID.
JAPAN IS GRATEFUL,
NAGASAKI, September 5.
The Japanese people are grateful for the ex pressions of sympathy King George has sent to the Emperor and Regent and for Premier Mussolini's message, to Count Yamamoto. They also appreciate the kindly sentiment of the British and "American Press.
NEWS FROM PEKING.
PEKING, September 4
The American Cruiser Squadron at Chin-wong- tao has been ordered to Japan with supplies. The Legations have no news regarding the safety of their nationals at Tokyo,
The Chinese Government is sending a repre- sentative to Shanghai to arrange with the Chamber of Commerce and other bodles regarding relief measures to Japan.
The Government is drafting telegrams of Rympathy to the Japan Goverment expressing the people's great sorrow
The newly appointed Charge d'Affaires has been urged to procceed to Takyo to report to the Government.
REPORTS RECEIVED LOCALLY.
LONDON, September 4 Lord Curzon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has conveyed to Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Ambass ador, the profuandest sympathy of the British Gov- ernnient, and assured him that any help the British
At the Commodore's office this morning it was Government can render will be most freely given learnt that though H.M.S." Despatch" had acknow- The King has telegraphed to Baron Hayashi his tedged the receipt of messages, she had transmitted heartfelt sympathy with the Japanese Nation "no news of importance. It is possible that H. M. S. the terrible, devastating disaster which has bafallen your country, bringing with it irreparable loss of communication will be easier. life."
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Hawkins" has proceeded to Yokohama, when
The N. V. K. has received the following teleg- Brigadier-General Trotter, on behalf of the rams: Eyewitness reports Yokohama Office has Prince of Wales, called upon Baron Hayashi and collapsed. Those who first escaped by lighters are expressed the Prince's sympathy. He specially feared to have been killed later. No news of Tokyo enquired about the safety of the Prince Regent. people. K. Mikumo, T. Asai, T. Inouye, T. Kuroya, Madame Pavlova intends to contribute the T. Hayashi, Ozaki and Midazukawa Toku safe, be- whole of the net takings of a performance at Coventing on tour. Garden Opera House, to be given on September 13, to the Japanese earthquake relief fund.
LONDON, September 4.
The British Naval authorities have been in structed to render all possible assistance to the Japanese authorities.
The British Red Cross Society has cabled. its-) deepest sympathy to the Japanese Red Cross, and has enquired whether it can help the sufferers in
any way at the
The second message reads:-Situation Head Office still unknown, Yokohama Office reported crushed down, some escaped;. fate of others is unknown.
The Union Insurance Society of Canton, last night received the following cable from Kobe :-
Passenger "Dongola" informed us Ivy and whole family, Lake and Hudson all safe and travel ling to Kobe on Empress of Calada."
A message to the T. K. K. confirms the report that the Tokyo Masine Insurance Company's build-
"General" Booth of the Salvation Army has cabled money to the Commissioner at Shanghai toing in Tokyo has collapsedia start relief work in Japan.
The entire staff of Messrs Dodwell and Co. at Yokohama are safe, according to a cable received" from Kobo yesterday. Mr. Syme-Thompson has received a cable announcing that his mother has for-safely reached Kobe.
FOREIGN CASUALTIES HEAVY
WASHINGTON, September 4. The United States Consul-General at Shanghai confirms the report that the casualties among eigners at Yokohama are very numerous.
. PLANS FOR RELIEF.
All Shipping Board vessels in the vicinity of Yokohama are to report to the senior American It is declared at the White House that Pre-naval officer at Yokohama and render all aid sident Coolidge is determined that the Government possible. shall put all its recources at the disposal of the. Jap anese Authorities for "the relief of victims of the earthquake.
AllShipping Board vessels in Far Eastern waters have been ordered to take up relief duty...
The American Red Cross has opened campaign to raise $5,000,000 for the relief of the sufferers. Already subscriptions are pouring in. The cinemas and theatres and the countryside are co-operating in the collection of funds.
The Yokohama offices of the U. S. Shipping Board are totally wrecked and all records destroyed.. One of the staff is slightly injured.
The Yokohama staff of the Pacific Mail S. S. Co." are all safe. Majority of Europeans are safe. Yoko- ahama is totally destroyed. No information had been received from Tokyo, when the message left Kobe last night. A Yokohama survivor was expected ot Kobe however, and further news may be expected.
At 8 o'clock last night, the Japanese Consul- General, Mr. Takahashi, received the following news from the Consul at Amoy, the message having been picked up by a Japanese destroyer in the port. The cable reads: Premier Count Yamamoto was
OTHER AID PLANNED.
BRUSSELS, September 4 The conference of the inter-allied federation of demobilised soldiers has passed a resolution of pro- found sympathy with Japan, assuring their Japan-injured on Saturday, when the first floor of the ese comrades of the federation's desire to assist them by all incans in their power.
The Italian Government has ordered the cruiser "Calabria" to proceed immediately from Shanghai to Japan and give every possible assist ance to the Japanese authorities.
Suikosha (naval club) collapsed.
After the ceremony of the installation of the ministers on Sunday, a gang of ruffians set upon the Premier and assaulted him as he was, leaving the Suikocha Since the tidal wave in Tokyo Bay on Sunday, Mr. Yamanouchi, Minister of Railways; the Premier; Admiral Takarabe, Navy Minister, and Dr. Hiranuma, Minister of Justice, have been mis- ex-ing.
COMPARISON WITH WAR,
LONDON, September 4. The Manchester Guardian, in an editorial, presses the opinion that the devastations in Japan, if not overstated, compare with the war devastations in France.
Parts of Akasaka, Ushigome, Koishikawa and the greater part of Azabu districts (Tokyo) are safe. In Fukagawa district, across the Sumida River from Tokyo, 30,000 people were killed.
The cities of Chiba and Kisarazu about 40 miles and 80 miles respectively north of Tokyo, have been totally destroyed.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is in receipt of news that all the members of the Yokohama branch are safe with the exception of Mr. I. C. Morrison. The first cable reported his death; a later message says he is missing.
"It seems possible that she has experienced losses of every kind still heavier than those of the Russian War and without any corresponding on- feeblement of any country she might be disposed to regard as a formidable neighbour.. It looks as if all over and round the Pacific a consciousness of somewhat changed proportions of national strength might soon have to be felt and with it come some perceptible modifications of existing policies. Now is the time for the human sympathy of all decentinen HP. Sharo and wife arrived at Kobe.to-day, and women in all countries to resolve that if Japan has indeed been gravely weakened, perhaps tem porarily disabled for self-assertion or even self- protection, no diplomatic advantige whatever shall be taken of her misfortune. The paper urges Japan, should be treated during any period of infirmity just as handsomely as if in the prime of her strength.
-FRANCE'S SYMPATHY.
PARIS, September 4 President Millerand has telegraphed to the Emperor of Japan expressing heartfelt sympathy with the victims, adding that the whole of France. feels for Japan in her cruel trial.
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all well, R. & Edwards also arrived, sustained Injuries to left hand. H. P. Sharp understands Me & Mrs. R. T. Wright and daughter, Mr. & Mrs. CR Rice & family and G. Fitzgerald, R, Guinness, J. Caldwell, A. G. Cameron. G. W. E. True all safe, J. G: Morrison missing. The telegram read:
The Empress of Canada," according to news received here to-day, has left Yokohama for Kobe with injured foreign residents on board Oa-the vessel's arrival at Kobe, it is hoped that fuller details of the fate of foreign residents in Tokyo and Yokohama will be available.
LOCAL RELIEF MEASURES.
At a meeting of the General Chamber of Com merce, last evening, it was decided to open a fund to enable relief to be sent to the sufferers in the disaster in Japan. The member of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce are coll iborating and a joint committe of four members from each: Chamber and four nominees of Mr. Takashashi, the Japanese Con- sul, will arrange details.
LONDON, September 4 The Lord Mayor announces the opening of a Mansion House Fuad for the relief of Japanese suf- terers.
NEW YORK, September 4, Upon receipt of advices saying that the entire personnel and equipment of the Salvation Army
At the meeting of the Legislative Council depot in the heart of Tokyo had been lost hi the to-morrow the Government will move that a sum of earthquake disaster the Salvationists announced the money be voted for relief work in Japan. starting of a five million dollar relief fund on behalf NEWS OF MBK STAFF – of the Japanese sufferers.
The local office of the Mitsui Bussan Kuisha has RUSSIAN SYMPATHY,
heard, fruni Japan that the staff at Tokyo is safe with MOSCOW, September 4the exception of six. The Yokohama staff is afe On behalf of the Soviet : Republics, Mr. on board the M. B. K. steamer Hpeiten Chicherin has sent an expression of the deepest Kary." Both.in Tokyo and Yokoham's the external sympathy with the people and Government of structure of the M. B, K. offices stands but the in- Japan. The press declares that the Russian people sides have been buration
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