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No. 18.975. 五拜禮
號七月九年三十二百九千一英
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1978.
日七十月七亥癸大歲年二十國寧中、
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CALAMITY IN JAPAN.
NEWS MORE REASSURING.
DAMAGE LESS EXTENSIVE THAN
THOUGHT.
DEATH OF MR. HAIGH.
Terrible as the calamity in Japan is, relations and friends of the victims can glean some comfort from to-dug's messages which indicate that the loss in Tokyo at any rate, of life and property is not so extensive as at first thought. It is also some comfort to learn that the figures for the foreign death-roll ip Yokohama remain at 70. The Naval Secretary has received no further news from HLM.S. "Despatch" which indicates that her commander is gathering confirmed details before communicating. As the
SOME, GALLANT DEEDS.
NAGASAKI, September 6.
Instances of heroism are related in connection with the calamity at Yokohama, where Japanese. amalis réfused to leave their foreign mistresses and babies, preferring to die together rather than flee. Japanese cooks, chauffeurs, and others heroically tolled in rescue work, risking their own lives. One coolle stood in the path of the ties and helped the women und children to escape. While he himself was fumigated. Reuter's talegrims, reporting the overwhelming sympathies of Great Britain, the United States, Franco, Italy and all others on behalf of Japan have been read by Japanese with sincerest gratitude, Y
Two of the wealthiest families in Japan, Mitsui and Mitsubishi have offered five million yén cach for relief, according to an Osaka telegram. The principal Banks in Tokyo, are reopening.
The Bank of Japan is practically safe. The Mitshi Bank Vault is safe; all books' and important papers being saved. The Mitsui Bishi, Taiwan, and Chosca Banks and the Industrial Bank of Japan names of those killed at the American Consulate are all safe, The Yokohama Specic Bank is also General In Yokohama only number three, it is to beported. This message obviously refers to the
banks in Tokyo.] hoped that those mentioned in a previous message have escaped.
H.M.S." Ambrose," the Naval Secretary stated has taken on board flour and othersupplies and will leave for Japan as soon as orders are received from the Commander in Chief.
(Reuter's Servico to the China Mail.)
LONDON, September 6. The Lord Mayor's Earthquake Fund has now reached £30,000.
AMERICAN HELP.
NEW YORK, September 6. The local Japanese Relief Fund already totals over one million dollars, including $100,000 each from Mr. Rockefeller Junior and The Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. The Silk Association raised $150,000 in half an hour yesterday. Many commBr cial houses have given clothing, food and timber. The committee has adopted the slogan "Minutes mean lives."
FRANCE TO MOURN.
PARIS, September 6. The Government has ordered flags to be flown at half mast on public, buildings throughout the country to-morrow. It is requested that all theatres, cinemas, etcetera, will close as a sign of mourning for the disaster in Japan.
BRITISH CONSUL'S REPORT,
LONDON, September 6, The British Consul at Kobe reports to the Foreign Office that damage to Usiness in the official districts in Tokyo is not do extensive as believed. The British Consulate as well as the Embassy are apparently saved. The War Office Admiralty and Department of fustice are intact.
Four Hundred British refugees from Yokohama have arrived in Kobc. It is confirmed that Mr W. Haigh, British Vice Consul at Yokohama was killed.
The districts of Osaka and Kobe were not damaged by the earthquake. The Brit- ish Naval Officer at Yokohama says that the whole of Yokohama and two thirds of Tokyo were destroyed. Seventy foreigners were killed in Yokohama ; none in Tokyo.
MR. HAWKES KILLED.
A Reuter message from Melbourne states that Mr. Hawkes, father of the Davis Cup tennis player, was killed at Yokohama in the recerit disaster. Mrs. Hawkes is safe.
A San Francisco message states that arrange ments are being hastened to ship practically the entire Californian rice crop to Japan.
TOKYO'S HEAVY LOSSES.
A wireless massage from Iwaki, m Harano- machi, Fukushima-ken, Japan, announces that 30,000 people were killed in Tokyo, 100,000 injured and 350,000 rendered homeless.
The Japanese Chargé d'Affaires in Belgium, called at the Foreign Ministry in Brussels and thanked the Belgian Government for the sympathy shown to Japan. He laid special stress on the sympathy evinced in the immediate starting of public subscriptions for the benefit of the victims.
A Simla dispatch announces that Earl Reading, the Viceroy, has decided to open an Indian Relief Fund for Japan. He has donated 5,000 rupees himself.
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·HOSPITALS DESTROYED.
An intercepted wireless from Reuter's Tokyo office reads: Yokohama is washed out. Mr. Kirjassof and wife are dead. Can get no communication so far with Osaka or Nagoya, The deaths and casualties In Tokyo are probably 50,000. A number of hospitals, including St. Luke's International Hospital, were destroyed. There were no casualties at the latter.
An intercepted wireless says the American Ambassador and entire Embassy staff are safe with the exception of Major and Mrs. Crane, whose fate Miss Doris Babbitt are reported killed. The mess- is not yet known. Consul Kirjassoff and family and
was signed Woods and addressed to the Secretary of State, Washington,
:
EMBASSY STAFF SAFE?.
NAGASKI, September 7.
A message from Mr. Russell Kennedy the General Manager of Kokusai News Agency in Tokyo, brought in by a refugee, states that the British En- bassy personnel is safe.
A DIFFERENT STORY.
SHANGHAI, September 7, A wireless from H.M.S." Despitch" gives the following casualties at the British Embassy in Tokyo: Mr. Horae, Commercial Attaché, and Mr. Waddell; accountant, killed. Messrs. Ashwith and Warton missing but believed safe.
Mr. W. Haigh, Vice-Consul, Yokohama, and Mr. Lees, Shipping Clerk,,killed. Mrs King, wife of Surgeon-Commander King of the Naval Hospital Yokohama), killed. The remainder with their families are safe.
It is officially stated that the Swiss Minister and members of the Legation Staff are safe. The Ger- man Consul-General, Herr Thiel, and family are re- ported safi
MORATORIUM
DECLARED. OSAKA, September 7.
A moratorium of 30 days has been declared for payments falling due between September I and 30. The moratorium is not applicable outside the zone of disaster.
Profiteering in essential commodities is liable to three years' imprisonment or Y3,000 penalty. The spread of rumours tending to encourage rioting and damage to life and property or to disturb peace and order is liable to ten years' imprison- meut of a penalty of Y3,000. The moratorium, prohibition of profiteering and prohibition of false rumours are issued in the form of emergency Im- perial Edicts.
ITEMS FROM MANY QUARTERS.
A message from Rome states the Italian
Ambassor jo Japan, who was reported missing is safe.
A Shanghai wireless message from Yokohama confirms the previous report that seventy foreigners were killed at Yokohama, three at Hakone but stone at Tokyo,
Messrs Lane, Crawford Ltd., have sent us the following:-
Lane, Crawford & Co., Kobe, giving us news of We have this morning received a cable from
Lane, Crawford & Co., of Yokohama. The telegram reads as follows →→
say anything regarding the staff (which, by the way is small) or the building. Although bearing the same nanie we should like to point out that we have no financial connection in any way with the Yoko- hama firm.
JAPAN IS GRATEFUL.
LONDON, September 6.
Mcklinell dead Johnson on "Dongola," Both The Japanese Ambassador writes to the Press, these gentlemen were Managing Directors of Lane, expressing profound gratitude at the many express-Crawford & Co., of Yokohama. The cable does not lons of sympathy received and the sympathetic at titude of the Press. He extended heartfelt thanks on behalf of his sorrowing countryman and said Even in these dark hours there is some consolation in the news of the nation uniting to face with courage and determination not only the difficulties of the
The Admiralty Line has received a telegram present, but the task of future reconstruciļonage from Kobe, stating staff is safe. Miss Varloy, a SHIP'S OFFICER'S ACCOUNT PR passenger by the President Jefferson," who landed at Kobe on August 31 to proceed overland to Tokyo, OSAKA, September 6. According to a ship's officer on the "London has not been heard of. Miss Varley was one of a Maru," the vessel was about to sail from Yokohama Party that landed at Kobe. It is, therefore, to be re-
sumed the athers are known to be safe. when the first shock was felt. I a few minutes a
The "President Grant" sailed for Kobe via peaceful town was changed into hell. The London Shanghai this nering with 60 tons of frozen beef Maru" did all possible to save the living. Especial and other supplies for the refugees in Japan. ly terrible, were the explosions of oiltanks, which
made one think the earth itself had cracked:
The "London Maru" has 340 refugees on board
from Yokohama.
The Japanese Consul-General last night cabled to the Tokyo Foreign Office a report of the resolu- tion moved by H.E. the Governor and passed by the Legislative Council at yesterday's, meeting, ex- pressing sympathy with the Japanese Nation, and approving the grant of $250,000 for the relief of distress in Japan.
The American Consul-General, Mr. W. H. Galė, is in receipt of a cable from Mr. E. R. Dickover, Consul in Kobe, which reads:
into the lateraational Relief Fund. Am co-operat ing with other Consuls in administering relief. Wa already have, about 2,000 foreign refugees in Kobe and fiore are gomi ig. We need ill the assistance which you gan re ider."
ASSOCIATED PRESS MESSAGE/ OSAKA, September 6. An intercepted wireless message, sent by the Associated Press, correspondent in Tokyo, dated Wednesday noon, reads:" estimated two hundred foreigners lost their lives at Yokohama, but names not obtainable. Yokohama is a charnel house. An Thank you for remittance, which will be put arrival from there says the stench of bodies is uns bearable. The canals are filled with dead bodies of those who were driven thither and to the water front by the fire. A large, number of foreigners were caught in Main Street, doing Saturday shopping, The earthquake left great gaps in the pavements, Reporting the disaster, the N. C. Daily News Americans and British are gathering the bodies of said: Many foreign residents of Shanghai were foreigners for burial at sea, The remnants of the speiding their holdiya at Hikone and Miyauroshita Chinese population are gathered under the Bluff no those of the latter resort being Mr. and Mrs. without food or shelter As far as is known only John Prentice, Mr. and Mrs. E, S, Wilkinson and one American is dead in Tokyo---Mr. W. T. Blume, Mr. and Mr. P. Crighton and their families, Mrs. H. of the General Electric Company, who was killed Reynall, Mrs. H. H. Read and Mrs. Momber. when the factory collapsed. The Americanskilled. Mr. Kiig, agent there for the Dunlop Rubber at Yokohama Include Mr. McDonald of the Grand Co. has received a telegram stating that the staff of Hotel and Mrs. Root and son, who were new arrivals, the company 11 Japan is safe. The mills, at and Mr. Kirjass off, the American Consul
Wakasohama, near Kobe, are working as usual.
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