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"{Contored from Page 24 Terible have Is been caused at many sutniner resorts. At Atamith fatalities are placed at six hundrell 2nd at Bi emba à similar number At Sundzi and Hakone the earth quake was very seveio.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1923.
Osaka by aeroplane, TYPHOON AND EARTH-Sands have taken refuge on the at
steamers Paris Mard,Harbin | carrying a QUAKES.
message from the Maru and Italy Maru. Commander Minister of War to the Commandèr Kube of the Naval Station has of the Osaka Division, reporting received a Funahash! wireless re- the condition of Tokyo and re- porting a serious conflagration at questing immediate relief mea- Yokosuka. The naval buildings sures including the transportation rice. and hospitals were burned. He af four thousand bags of says that medical Instruments, The Naval Minister is broad- drugs and food are badly wanted, casting instructions by wireless The Nagoya division is mobilising ordering all warships to engage in acroplanes to ascertain the con-relief work. The most active pre- San Francisco. Sept. 2.—A wire-dition of Tokyo from the air. less picked up reports that Tokyo is alire. Many buildings have col. lapar d., The water system has beca. destroyed. There has been heavy loss of life, and the domes are spreading to surrounding towns.
Recorded at Brussels. Brussels, Sept. 1.-The Uecle Observatory recorded violent!
o'clock this morning.
parations are in progress in Osake Ten Distinct Shocks,
and Kobe for relief for a gigantic Osaka, Sept. 2-According catastrophe. Ship after ship will to the Mainichi correspondent's be despatched to Tokyo with sup story yesterday, since early mora-plies of provisions, ing there was a strong wind. It
reached A report has
the wae cloudy and hot at noon. The Nagoya Division from the Tokoro- terrible shock which was repeated zawa aerodrome that the Foreign over ten times resulted in all office and the Finance and Educa-
earthquake shock in Japan at threadwellings and offices and other tional Departments have been buildings being either completely destroyed by fire. The Asahi and or partially damaged.
Mainichi are sending reporters to Vienna Record,
The people fled from their Vienna, Sept. 1.-From laur houses jamming the streets and all Tokyo by aeroplane and the news- o'clock until after eight this mora.available open spaces. Intermit-papers are starting subscriptions ing the seismographs at the Vienna tent shocks continued until sun-to a relief fund. Institute of Meteorology registered down. The fire broke out every- the most violent earthquake ever where fanned by the strong wind recorded here. The distance from and spread in all directions. the centre of the disturbance is was impossible to control it owing over eight thousand miles.
to the stoppage of water leaving the whole town at the mercy of the flames.
."
It
Yokohama Mass of Ruins. Osaka, Sept. 2.-A Naval wire-
200,000 Bulldings Burned. less received at Sasebo from Funa bashi atates: "No communication The correspondent left Tokyo at between Tokyo and Funahashaalne last night. At that time Men despatched to Tokyo to obtain already many Government offices s report have not yet returned, but had been burned, including the the stories of refugees indicate that Home Department and the Metro- many buildings were demolished. politan
Polico
station.
He
Hongkong Record. Hongkong Observatory, Sept. 2. 12. 20 p.m.-A very large earth- quake was recorded yesterday; The preliminary tremors occurred at 13 a.m. The origin appeary to be near Tubyo.
JAPANESE POLITICS.
Osaka, September, 2-The politi cal situation in Tokio is obscure.
At the first shock the Mitsubishi estimates that two hundred thou-Situation Very Obscure. department store caught fire, the sand buildings had been reduced Hamer spreading to the palace and to ashes at the time of his de consuming the Metropolitan Police parture when Tokyo was still bur Station and Imperial Theatre. ing in many places. The extent The same report says the Navy of the casualties is inestimable. Department does Dub Answer Troops and surgeons are giving wireless calls: therefore it first aid at the Government print feared the Department is also
ing office where thousands of afire."
workmen were killed and in-
It is reported that the Yamamoto Cabinet was formed and installed shortly before the earthquake but another report says although the personnel was practically decided: upon, it was not officially appointed.
From other reports it appears thas fire broke out in forty eight jured. At the Nihondenki Elec- Another report says that Yamamoto Works, six hundred is offering Hayashi now in London place in Toky Business districal
were killed: Tokyo the portfolio of foreign minister.-- triats lite Nihonbashi, with workmen mady important banks and office, people spent a sleepless night Reuter the educational centre of Kandawithout light, the flames lighting and other sections all suffered ter up the whole town however. rible destruction.
I
Martial law has been proclaimed The Palace is reported to be still in, Tokyo, burding
Shinagawi was washed-by tidal-Qaka, September 2-Lieu-
WRYER.
Yukobama harbour is reported demolished, and the Yokohama and Asane Dockyards likewise. All reports indicate that Yokohama is an immense mass of ruins.
Imperial University Demolished.
Nagasaki, Sept. 2.A special messenger from Tokyo, hurrying to Akakura hotspring, where Princees Nagako is staying, to report the conditions in Tokyo, was interview. ed en route. He said the Palace fire is not serious, but Mitsubishi's, the Imperi Theatre, the Imperial University and other important buildings were demolished, Fire is raging at Akasuks.
Alarming Rumours.
DOWS
Osaka, September 2.-The entire nation is without reliable from the capital now for nearly twenty-four hours. The morning newspapers characterize the intas trophe as an unprecedented DA- tional calamity.
Cruke is sending the steamer! Chicago Mara with relief. She is! leaving this afternoon.
There are disquieting sum urs,
for instance that Premier Yamamoto has been asenseinated.
There is no news concerning the safety of the Prince Regent,
Prince Regent Reported Safe. Osaka, Sept. 2-A member of the staff of the Osaka Mainichi who happened to be in Tokyo yosterday, telegraphed the first detailed report from the city. He saya the Prince Regent is safe. Premier Yamamoto had the nar rowest escape.
The Cabinet has not yet been officially formed. The newspaper | offices of the Asahi, Jiji, Kolcumin and the Advertiser were destroy-j
ed.
Osaka, Sept. 2-According to a report received in Osaka the tele- graph office of the Tokyo Central Telegraph and the Telephone offices was completely destroyed by fre.. It is believed that the telephone line will be partially restored comparatively early," but its total restoration will take over a month. Osaka is despatching the Senkal Maru to Tokyo laden with food and drinking water. Kobe is like- wise despatching the Yamashiro Maru.
The safety of the Prince Regent has been confirmed. His Majesty is sojourning at Nikko,
200,000 Homeless in Yokohama.
A wireless despatch from the Korea Maru says that two hundred, thousand inhabitants of Yokohama are homeless and foodless. Thou
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