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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7TH,
THE JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE. TWO YEARS AFTER.
CHANGES IN TOKYO AND
YOKOHAMA,
The Japanese earthquake, in which the cities of Tokyo and Tokohama suffered appalling losses in human life and property centred just over two years ago. The Timex" Tokyo Cor respondent in the following article gives an urrount of the two cities as they are toulay, and mys that the work of reconstruction in the capital is for in advance of that in Yokokamu,.. Tokyo may seem to the tourist to-day an unlovely city of inexpensive build ings. There is hardly anything to sug gest that what he sees is one of the most wonderful triumpha over misfortune ever recorded. Those who are a little inclined to. ridicule some of the queer little shan- tics which the owners have heen compelled by financial ruin to put up in place of the more pretentions buildings which existed before the earthquake, do not stop to consider how much more poorly a European capital might have done if
it had been 'n hard hit.
THE CHINA CRISIS. HOME PAPER DISCUSSES THE ADMIRALTY VIEW,
A SOLDIER'S TALE. HALF A CENTURY OF FAITHFUL SERVICE
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FORT. EIGHT YEARS' SERVICE," by General Sir Horace Smith Dorrien. GCB, G.OMG, D.S. Published by John Murray, London.
"A soldier's, tale, of war and war's alarumi" might very well sum up the feelings of the reader of this" most excal." ert book. There are few, if any, frills or fancies in the 29 chapters which record the history of quite a number' of Britain's little wars from 1878 onwards until the chief centre of interest, August 1914-May-
It is clearly the view of the Admiralty that the unrest in China is going to continue indefinitely, in which event the resources of the Navy are likely to be rather severely taxed states an editorial in the Naval and Military Record of September 2nd. Some three weeks ago the Cuine was ordered to detach from the East Indies Squadron and join the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, China Station, to replace temporarily one of the cruisers which had gone into dock yard hands at Hongkong. There is reason to believe, however, that the 1915, is reached. But it will undoubtedly Coro may remain on for awhile after be upon the last hundred pages or so that her assigned mission is fulfilled. Prac-criticism will concentrate.
There is, however, much that is of great tically all the available craft in reservo at Hongkong have been completed to full interest in the fale told of Smith-Dor- complement, and the Yangtze and West rien's younger days. No time is wasted in the detail of preliminary chapters River Flotillas have been increased.
More significant still as reflecting the which have ordinarily come to be asso official view of the situation is the in- ciated with memoirs of this type. In- telligenes that six small motor vessels have been taken up by the Admiralty, stead, we find ourselves in the first six pages given all we are to receive regard- | ing Smith-Dorries from the age of 1
and manned with naval ratings, so as to suppplement the disposable resources
This lesson is brought home the more by a visit to Yokohama, where the greater of the Commander-in-Chief. We have to 1 and immediately thereafter we are part of the work of reconstruction has no information as to what other Pawers carried to South Africa and the battle boon carried out by native capital and are doing, but it is only reasonable to of Imandhlwana. But what are we to by the municipality. Not a single club, expecs that they should contribute to make of the following:-" I went up to hotel, or shipping office has yet been risen wards the arrangementen for protecting Captain Bromhead and I told him a from the ashes of the Band. A few tem. their subjects. It is true that animosity, big fight was expected and that I wanted | fostered by Balshevik intrigue, is main-
porary buildings, mostly residential, are to be seen, but none of them can be said, in any way to take the place of the palatial edifices which formerly lined the Bund. Tokyo is just as liable to curth- quakea as Yokohama or almost any other part of Japan; yet a dozen great build ings have risen, or are rising, in Tokyo, while nothing of the sort can be seen in Yokohama. Not only is the Bund still without any vestige of its former opulence but the Bluff is, to all intents and purposes, as barren a hillside as it was on the days immediately following the earthquake. It is altogether different with the harbour facilities, which the Government have restored, and, in some Aš a respects, considerably improved. port Yokobama is almost normal, as a business centre it is a mere shadow of On the site of what wBA what it wLA once the focus of its most prosperous activity the most that has been dono is general tidying up and carting away of rubbish to be shot on the foreshore in front of the Bund, where it is reclaim ing a goodly portion of the shelving mud.
11 ly directed against the British and the revolver ammunition. He gave mo
bel Japanese. For political reasons Japan rounds" 11 roundal Thera may does not want to send a larger naval some underlying sarcasm here; but there' force than is absolutely necessary.
Piracy is said to be steadily on the in none a page or two later on-
"After the war the Zulus, who were increase in Chine waters, bat this is probably more the result of opportunity delightfully naive and truthful people, than of any condition of national un- rest. The ways of the modern Chinese fold us that the fire, was too hot for pirate are exceedingly difficult to deal them and they were on the verge of with. He embarks as a peaceable passen.
ger in the ship he intends to seize, and retreat, when suddenly the fire slackened when he has done his job there is and they came on, again. The reader nothing in external appearances to in dicate that anything is namiss. The bold. will ask why the fire slackened, and the these gentry is pretty well answer is, alas because, with thousanda of rounds in the wagons 400 yards in illustrated by the fact that they boarded and took a Chinese cruiser not long since, but, of course, it is impossible to rear, there was none in the firing line; say how far this was effected by the all those had been used up. How often, complicity of the crew:
the author might very well ask, has seen history repeat itself in this respect?. Later in the same Isandhtwana “show” Smith-Dorrien hiraself was caught dur
** scrounging" ing the actual fighting ammunition belonging to another bat- talion and was reprimanded by the Quartermaster {?
HOUSES PUSHED BACK. One of the streets in which the bouses have been forcibly pushed back is the approach to the Imperial Mausoleum at Gokokuji. The width of the road has been doubled. The new building line is now nearly soft farther back. Lamp
One more quotation from Isandhiwana posts and overhead telegraph posts, once at the road-side, are now right in the typical of many pages in the earlier middle of the road. A strange thing about this particular road is that it is part of the book I jumped on my outside the burst area and that it did brokenkueed pony, which had no rest not suffer severely from the actual tor 30 hours, to tud on topping the neck The other road in which the a scene of confusion I shall never tor-
tremor.
buildings have been pushed back in only
It is, however, in the author's story of his part in the Great War that readers
REBUILDING PROBLEMS. Tokyo has certainly gone ahead, if it is still far from the modest ideal which the city fathera promulgated 12 months ago. They then planned to widen several hundred miles of streets-more than 50
get, for some 4,000 Zulus, had come in per cent. of the thoroughfares of Tokyo a short stretch from Surugulaishita to behind and were busy with shield and I was fortunate assegat." into this mob I rode, revolver by an operation entailing the complete Ochanomizu station. or partial demolition of more than enough to see the transportation of build- in hand, right through the Zulus"
Smith-Dorrien was recommended for TELATIONH ÜENTELL 4884. (Fan Floo) 100,000 houses. It will not be difficult to ings in progress: A strong wire wa
imagine the resistance that a civic earth fastened round the base of a house. The the V.C. for two separate acts at Isand- quake of this kind met with from some
other end was fastened to an anchored hlwana but as the proper channels for of the property owners, especially when capstan. The house was well shored and correspondence had not been observed they were asked to forge compensational stresses were apparently taken up the matter dropped. The author does. The not say what the two acts were but con- For the first 10 per cent of their pro- with appropriate wooden fenders. perty. Tokyo is a huge city mostly of
capstan was set going, and to the house cludes, In view of my latest ex- one-storeyed buildings. It is my daily walked back to its allotted place with periences I am sure that decision was lot to traverse vast stretches of its axle surprising rapidity. One of the peri right, for any trivial net of good breaking streets. I have noticed in only patetic houses was a wooden one with a Samaritanism I may have performed two places any serious attempt to comply ecncrets front. It appeared to survive inas day would not have earned a šli, with the improvement scheme. Map in the agitation without disintegration of
heroism performed during the Great hand, I have been unable to discover a single one of those perfect little parks any kind. In this particular ense widen much less a VC. amidst the deeds of real which were planned to provide us withing was so earnestly desired by the town War. 1914-1916.
planners that the citizens were given now refuge in times of earthquake and with ground at the back of their houses, an water in times of fire and punctured that they actually benefited by the shift. will find chief interest. As might be water mains Until all the street widen. The next day they burst forth into de- expected, General Smith-Dorrien tells a ings that were planned have been carried corations, as is the Japanese habit. It so plain, unvarnished story. Unfortunate out, the provision of water-holes is n
happened that their houses backed on to matter of little importance, as the fire comparatively large but ruined pro- it will unquestionably be the general engines are still unable to reach directly perty, the owner of which was only too verdict that, the finish is most disap- quite 10 per eent. of the habitations..
publications will further clear up the Tokyo consists either of buildings of giad to make a compulsory sale of a pointing and it is to be hoped that later modern masonry, mainly concrete, or strip to help towards his rehabilitation,
The few rains that still remain dotted mystery, surrounding the departure of wooden one or two-storeyed structures The two types are so intermingled that about Tokyo are mostly of private houses the leader of the Second Army Corps of the larger ind who: owners, at the from France. The author, naturally, except in the small business centre known time of the earthquake, were living in must know and guess at much more than aa Marunouchi near the Central station, no line can be drawn between them. Even respectable poverty and who have not the he has written but he has very wisely means to reconstruct their shattered fire decided to carry his part of the revela in the Ginza, the Regent-street of Tokyo,
It is not the task of the present writer choly sporthela. No WELLINGTON & WARD, LTD.,lowly single-storeyed shops stand side by swept catates. These present a melan- tions no further than a certain point.
side with vast department stores.
When the appalling loss of life and the to enter into the merits or demerits of doubt in the fullness of time wood will holocaust of 30,000 people at one point the trouble which undoubtedly, arose be give place to masonry, but that time is
are put out of one's mind, it is easy to tween the G.O.C. in France and General not yet. It is in the Ginza, that the
see how a city can benefit by a catas Smith-Dorrion, but it certainly does rudiments of a brighter and better Tokyo trophe of the magnitude of the 1923 earth seem most extraordinary that the coma. are to be seen, for that is the only quake, One of the very greatest benefits mander who should have been so highly thoroughfare that is not in danger of to the city, now on. the verge of com- commended for brilliant work at Buy widening operations. It is about as pletion, will have been the conversion of Cateau and other great battles should, wide a Regent-street and at present the "S" shaped urban electric railway so very suddenly, be asked to return to carrim about a quarter as much traffic. into a circle of about the same dimen- London without even the satisfaction of Since the catastrophe of two years ago. sions as the London Inner Circle, Vested seeing his chief in the field. in which every wooden house in the Ginza intercate raade the accomplishment of this
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Of Smith-Dorrien's work in the war was burnt down and all the others were task hardly, possible in fewer than ten up to his departure for France, the It now book gives us an admirable idea and one gutted, two immense department stores, ears, before the earthquake Matsuzakaya and Matsuya, have sprung up. Of these, the second is by far the seems as if five years will have been cannot but be impressed by the frequent BAYod. The link is a matter of less than references which be makes to the almost larger larger even than the famous two miles, but it runs through one of incredible fortifade of the infantry, under the terrible discomforts of the Mitaukosai store, which is situates! about the most populous parts of the city, a mailo farther along the Ginza in a part
Now storm-swers have been laid is earliest months of the War.
The various actions, including Mons, called Nihombashi, Mitsukoshi, together pinces, and the upheavals occasioned by with its stock valued at 3,000,000 yen, this work have sorely harassed motoriste Le Calcat, La Bresse, etc, are illustrat was gutted by the earthquake fire; it has for the past two years Bat tubes and ed by official maps which will be found now been more or less reconstructed. what ars even more needed anitary of immense value to the reader, and Matsiya's store resembles ons of the sewers will never comes for the Japanese there are many interesting illustrations. After his retiral from France, Gen great Paris stores in its construction and farmer insists on his right to the empty-
internal decoration. It is, with the groatings of compita. In this respect Tokyo ral Smith-Dorrien went on to Africa Marunouchi office-building, the present may remain an offensive anachronism to and later to Gibraltar which was his wonder and pride of Tokyo, for which foreigners for all time. Japanese who last official position. He tells many de countryHolk make a bee-line the moment have travelled abroad are the first to rolightful stories throughout the book, they arrive. With its discordant orchestra proach their countrymen on this un especially of the years which he spent mangling European music, it offers to ant matter, but nntil the Japanese in India. and those go a long way to of the wards varying the pages so replete with foreigner no attraction other than ite
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