THE CHINA, MAIL, JULY 28, 1988.
KOBE COVERED WITH DEBRIS AFTER BIG FLOOD; PROPERTY LOSS TOPS Y100,000,000
Donald M. Davies, Travelling Newsman, Reports On Conditions In Nippon City; Tokyo Said Still Gay
Literally washed away by the de- broken and the unbroken ones, the luge, Kobe after the recent flood was man was seen diligently washing in effect a city of debris, Mr. Donald | each of the eggs. M. Davies, newsman formerly with the Associated Press of America in New York, told a reporter following his arrival from Japan.
Mr. Davies, who arrived in Kobe a day after the flood had cut a wide swath of death and destruction through the city, is now on a round- the-world trip.. He spent some three weeks in Japan, interviewing men occupying key positions and gathering background material for his news articles.
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In Tokyo Mr. Davies found that although the glittering lights the city's gay night spots remain- ed undimmed, the average man and woman on the street in Japan are now beginning to realise that there s a real war going on somewhere.
Believing that. the Japanese economic structure is extremely lexible, Mr. Davies is of the opinion that no self-respecting writer or expert can honestly predict the time when the Nipponese financial set-up would collapse.
The hardship which the war has brought on the pocketbooks of the Japanese people, however, seem to be more acute than what appears on the surface, he stated.
Described in Japan as the worst catastrophe which has hit the coun- try, since the 1923 earthquake, the flood was estimated by the Japan Chronicle to have taken at toll of In Tokyo, a casual visitor could more than 1,000 lives, and some 100,- find few evidences to show that 000,000 Yen in property damages, major struggle abroad and at home Mr. Davies revealed. Foreign is in progress.
Cabarets, movie, business men told the newsman that houses and other amusement places the final check-up is likely to show a are still well patronized. total property damage of some 500,- 000,000 Yen..
Intermittent heavy rain and a final steady downpour lasting three days turned Kobe streets into veri- table rivers. Torrents, rushing down the road, carried parts of houses, clothes and debris, he said:
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STREETS COVERED
When the flood water finally clear. ed, the streets were covered with de-
bris sometimes piling as high as the roofs of diminutive Japanese houses. A man walking down Kobe streets. during the first few days after the flood had to be careful lest he trip over a traffic light sticking up from the debris.
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|BONA FIDES OF MILL SALE QUERIED
Shanghai, July 16. Whether or not the transaction involving the sale of the Chinese Chun Tah Cotton Mill to the British China Spinners Limited, a company formed especially for this purpose, was specious or genuine" would determine the attitude of the Japan- ese authorities towards the case, a Japanese Embassy spokesman said yesterday morning.
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The bona fides of the deal, the spokesman said, would be the prin- cipal element to be studied.
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The fact that the preliminary deed of sale had been signed in The flood water flowing down the September, after the outbreak of street was used by housewives to the hostilities in Shanghai, was of launder their clothes, clean their secondary importance, the spokes- furniture and wash vegetables. man indicated.
During his trip around the city. Mr. | He declined to comment further Davies saw one man recover a whole on the case, stating that an investi- basket of eggs out of the towering gation into the case was now being pile of wreckage. Sorting out the made by experts.
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