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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1933.

7,000 HOMES LOST IN JAPAN 'QUAKE

WALL OF WATER SWEEPS FOUR PREFECTURES

1,535 PEOPLE PERISH

are still missing.

ferers.

wave.

tioned above.

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Ja:

Then

water roared

Correspondence.

S.P.C.A. AND PROTECTION

OF BIRDS.

are

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-Day's Short Story.

ABU

WIDN

By E. R. Morrough.

MARCO the night nurse. ferent life would have been for

men.

+

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork," by Lady Eleanor Smith.

[To The Editor "China Mail"] Sir,-Will you please grant me space to comment on the prosecu-

thanked heaven for the Marco and his mother if his father tion, as reported in your paper, re

change of wind. No more mos-had

lived.

He had been lative to the transportation of Birds days. He was able to get through pariment

quitoes nor sandflies for a few taken on in the new De- Graphic stories have been receiv- tomi, director general of the centralt is suggested that the Society for his period of duty without wear ed just after the British occupation of Irrigation form- ed of the earthquake and tidal wave aeismological observatory, to have Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ing mosquito boots and con-of Egypt; he had gone down into which devastated four Prefectures been 125 miles southeast of Cape should define what they consider a tinually slapping at his neck; the Northern Delta on duty, and had In Northern Japan, causing the Kinkazan, to the east of Sendai.

suitable area death of 1,635 people, and injuring)

for the housing of the patients, with their clinging never come back. Night of Horror,

It was establish- 338. Nine hundred and forty-eight || He said the shocks at the epicen-Birds; this, in my opinion, should be beds, could get the full benefit and, following the big drainage muslin nets brailed up over their ed that he had left Simballaween, tre were probably more severe than the responsibility of the More than 7,000 houses, were the Great Tokyo-Yokohama earth-thorities.

Au- of the blessed breeze.

canal northwards, had travelled to destroyed, leaving many thousands quake of 1923, which followed by

*All was quiet on his flat. Only the edge of that enormous marsh of persons homeless.

fire, killed more than 100,000 per- mainly concerned with the prevenbused a bad case. .."While we, as

three of the six rooms under a Society,

his behind Damietta. After that all Iwate Miyagi and Aomori prefec-sons.

charge were occupied and none trace of him was lost. He had tures on the main island of Hondo,

tion of Cruelty, as President of the

Marco walked simply disappeared. He had not Samushiro was swept by the S.P.C.A. and together with my across to the open window and lean been in the service long enough to and Hitaka prefecture on the island wall of water.and thirty persons Committee, we are directly respon- built on a bluff on the west bank of Marco's mother had kept herself of Hokkaide, were the worst aufwere reported missing and probably sible for the work of our Inspectors the Nile, and before him illimitable and her boy alive by the only means ed vout. The nursing-home was carn any pension for his family. drowned. Swept By Wave.

The experience of Kamaishi was

und, in the present case, we have Hokkaido escaped the destructive typical of the whole eastern coast's

been forced to

leagues of desert stretched west- open to a friendless young woman prosecute. The effects of the quake itself, but the night of death and terror. The first been repeatedly warned with refer dulating gravel plateau, over which possible for Marco to plan his, or

shop la Cochrane

ward. Street

By day the vast expanse in the Cairo of the 'cighties. It had has coast was swept by a fatal tidal tremur collaps 900 houses and

was almost featureless, a gently un- shortened her life and made it im- started numerous fires.

ence to the deplorable conditions The earthquake was felt in 12 The majority of the Inhabitants, and other animals

under which the owner keeps Birds the wind might come rustling clear to do anything but take what offer different prefectures, but damage remembering from generations of has only to visit these places in

across the Sahara without encoun- ed. for sale. Оле

Now he had a wife and baby: centred chley in the four men-experience that tidal waves usually order to realise the appalling condi-

tering a tree or a habitation of boy of his own. are the sequel to quakes, fled in their tions under which these poor crea-goundless and sterile, with the, That night the prospect was The coast citipa of Hamaishii nightclothing, to the nearby hills,tures are housed,

just 3 vast ses of nothingness. and Port Miyako, and the towns of leaving the fire unchecked. Tara and Totan.

worst the dreaded wall of

"The S.P.C.A. have repeatedly across the south-western sky.

Scorpion were the

sprawling magnificently nufferers.

upon the land, and engulfed some

asked that a license should be neces-; an-1,400 buildings.

sary and regulations framed in

Strange, thought Marco, by what The death toll at this point was be provided to carry on the trade of

order that humane conditions should Here he was keeping body and soul means one eventually makes a living." feared to be more than 160.

together as tratie in Birds and animals.

a male nurse. Second Disaster.

From what his mother had sald, his The fishing ports of Yamada, connection with the present Miyako and Omoto, along with which the trade is carried on, followed in his footsteps

father had intended him for very: A sleepy, muttering sound and the terrible conditions under

different things.

dis- Kammishi, all in

He was to have turbed Marco's thoughts and gave Iwate prefecture, earnestly appeal for the support of apparently suffered the worst.

as an them all lovers of Birds and animals to that father as a tall person with a By all accounts he had been a pretty The natural disaster was

a new trend-only old All He dimly remembered Pasha Shakwi talking in his sleep. the second of tragic proportions to

assist the S.P.C.A. in its endeavour A total of 2.735 houses were strike Japan in four months, aa on cruelty existing in our midst.

to stamp out this evil of careless facility in tossing a small boy on to youth,

gay smile and a much appreciated formidable fellow, especially in his washed away, 1.721 destroyed by November 14 the worst typhoon the quake. 300 burned and 2,774 since 1917 Inahed Hondo and took O'Brian to bring this owner of the time to observe birds and beasts, a mountain of a man temporarily

his shoulder.

He had been one of the old- "Instructions were given to Mr wanderings he had always found on his vast estates.

They said that in his fashioned kiad, a regular little king a toll of about 350 lives. Hauses

Now he wan Boats Washed Awny.

and ships were wrecked and fire Small vessels numbering 1,485 added to the destruction.

learned societies in Rome. If you brought him into the nursing-home. and he had been, a correspondent of helpless with the gout which had were washed away and 85 were The 1923 quake and damaged. Most of

saw the right side of his head it Marco had been one of the threa the missing was the worst disaster in Japan's Gentleman representing the defen. were in small boats.

history, all but completely destroy-dants must, from a business point he was fighting with Garibaldi in a hitch in the travelling arrange was disfigured by the loss of half men sent to bring him up from his The Ominato navy station dising Tokyo and Yokohama. The total of view, do his best for his client his adventurous teena.

the ear. That had happened when palace in the provinces, and through patched several destroyers to the number of casualties afterword was but I do feel that he is stressing the earthquake area with medical supput at 246,540, of which 103,733 responsibilities of the Local Society

How dif- ments he had been in the place two plies, surgeons and nurses, Relief were injured, 99.331 killed and

Joys. It was a great, rambling, measures were rapidly being or-43,470 missing and probably all¦

in asking them to make laws govern-

orderless mansion, with hundreds of gnaised.

killed. Houses destroyed by fire and Animals.

ing the buying and selling of Birds.

dependents. Detachments of engineers and numbered

Ali Pasha had not 447,128, by cavalry were sent to the stricken 128,266. The property loss.

moved much with the times, and be- collapse "We are at all times willing to

sides crowds of veiled women, rang- districts.

plared officially at 5,500,000,000 yen done; to state what must be done is help by suggesting what might be

ing in hue from ebony to Circassian: pallor, there were indefinite num- beyond our power and appreciate the

hers of bowabs and qunuchs remarks of His Worship who

and story-tellers and buffoone and examined the cages and stated that Chu Shi Yin, a travelling trader, dancing girls. It was fedual and definite evidence of eruelty existed 'and Kwok Shui, a cargo boat mas-

medival still The estate abound- and trust that all people will realize ter, appeared before Mr. Wynne ed in Ghafirs, some armed with that profit should not be made out Jones at the Central Magistracy to- of Cruelty.

Latest official figures were nounced as follows:

Iwate prefecture. 1,380 dead. 950 injured and 696 missing.

Miyago prefecture. 136 dead, 25 injured and 254 missing.

Aomori prefecture. 8 killed. 37 injured and 21 missing.

Hitaka prefecture, 11 killed. none injured and 4 missing.

inundated.

Heavy Quake.

The quake started at 2.35 am, and continued strongly for some time, evidently centring off the const in the Pacific ocenn.

The tidal wave followed later.

The quake was second in severity

of the many quakes which Japan has felt since the major disaster in

all Japanese history, the 1923 earth- quake

eentring

A. P.

In

case,

shop in Cochrane Street before the Court in order that justice might be given to the Birds and Animals tidal wave under his charge.

Granted, the

PARTNERSHIP DISPUTE Ownership Of A Pass - Book.

WAR

in Tokyo and The partnership dispute between Yokohama, which resulted in 99,331 the Ming Tal Bank, plaintiff, re deaths and 103,733 persons being presented by Mr. Hin Shing-Le (in- injured.

structed by Mr. M. K. Le), and Another quake in

1927 killed Wong Shing-cheong, defendant, re- 2,275 persons and injured 3,440 presented by Mr. Eldon Potter K.C.,

and Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed) by Mr. F. H. Laseby), continued this morning before the Chief Jus- tice, Sir Joseph Kemp,

near Kyoto-U. P.

J. RUSSELL,

S.S. ANTUNG

TOTAL LOSS

150 Passengers Safe

At Hoihow.

WARSHIP STANDS BY TO

PREVENT LOOTING

engineer.

PEANUT CARGO,

Unlawful Possession

fixed.

The

Alleged.

case was remanded until Monday, ball of $250 being grant

ed.

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MARTELL'S BRANDIES

day to answer to a charge of un- enlders. Nowadays they approximat- lawful possession of 620 catties of ed fairly closely to night watch- peanuts, which the prosecution al- men and gamekeepers, but Marco President S.P.C.A.lege was part of the cargo under could imagine that not so

the care of the second accused, years ago they had been nothing

Mr. Horace Lo appeared on be more than hired brayoes, half of the first defendant and re-

It was a strange country in which; Aquested that a date for hearing be the palace stood: The high wall of its garden was surrounded by flat) Army And Navy Ald.

fields of cotton and maize, which Tokyo, March 3.

on the north sool gave place to rice: A vast tidal wave, hurled upon

Swamps. These, again, after the shore by a terrific upheaval in

short distance, merged into the The plaintiff Bank allege that the the Pacific

marshes, a vast area of shallow. ocean bed, devastated defendant was, between November, 300 miles of the northeastern shore 1927 and December, 1929, a partner

water and untamed reed-beds teem- of Hondo, the main island of Japan, in the Kwong Ming Cheong firm

ing with fish, and in winter The annual concert of the St. wildfowl.

with and other sections early to-day. (sugar dealera), of 43 Des Voeux

Patrick's Club will take place in the population inhabited that labyrin- A curious amphibian It killed hundreds, perhaps more Road, West, against whom they ob

Clubroom on Thursday, March 16, thine wilderness. then a thousand persons. It swirled tained a judgment for $8,871.05 in

The Antung is to be abandoned ***

at 8 p.m.

They dwelt in .huts of reeds built on low banks lost destructively through sedres of July, 1930.

Jas a total loss. About 150 pas coastal towns, and reached 200 miles

in the waste, and they were regard- The defendant, Wong Shing-sengers who had landed on the sent to the Government Civil Hos, bouring fellabeen. They found their Ngai Yee, a ricksha coolie was ed as wild men even by the neigh- farther north and scourged south-cheong, stated that all receipts from beach apposite the wreck are now pital suffering from shock as a re- staple livelihood in the fish and

A compilation of the reports of sent to his father who told defend-

the Kwong Ming Cheong firm were safe in Hoihow where they are besult of being hit by a public taxi in wildfowl. Seemingly impervious to the governors of Iwate, Miyagi, and ant at the time that he was intending cared for by the agent of Des Voeux Road West.

cold and exposure, they would wade Aomori prefectures, the hardest hit, ing to send them to another per- Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, late to-day showed 545 known dead, son.

for miles to get among They will be carried to Hong ported yesterday to be ashore on water one by one.

The 8.8. Kwong Sal, which was re- duck and secretly pull them under a flock of

·990 seriously hurt, and 623 missing.

In addition a Bengo dispatch from the defendant who claimed that he Kweiyang which will arrive here and has proceeded on her voyage, seen it.

A pass-book was then shown to Kong by the Company's 5.8. Parker Point, has been refloated, Marco had not believed it till he had It could be done. Hakodate said three waves swept had seen it before and that, though on Sunday.

But their chief resource aouthern Hokkaido, and it was fear-it was kept in his handwriting, it

The H.MS. Folkestone is still passengers or cargo..

No damage was sustained by either, was the casting-net. ed more than 100 perished there.

Naked and was the property of his aunt, as the standing by the wreck to preventĮ

waist deep in the chilly water. the name on the front of the book would looting. Snow Falls.

She reports that a

fishermen would stand as motionless show.

Wong Ah-luk, a small Chinese boy as herons till the art V.V.E.S.O.P. Snowfall began during the day, In-j

heavy swell is running and that of. 10, was admitted to the Govern- within range_moved them to action. In It were entries relating to there is no likelihood of any ment Civil Hospital auffering from as swift and shrewd as the lunge of tensifying-the-bardships. Late to money paid to the Kwong Ming looting at, present. day fire destroyera arrived off the Cheong Arm and interest received

Injuries to the forehead, as a re- the bird's bill. Mr. J. R. Kinghorn, engineer super motor cycle ridden by Kung Yen passage through the air the Hmp THREE STAR

Salvage operations are in charge of ault of being knocked down by a quisite.

Their skill was ex- intendent of the China Navigation wing in Pokfulam Road, near Third bundle of net which had been lying In the second or two of its

Co., who is on board the tug Tal-Street. koo at the scene of the wreck.

over the fisherman's left arm would be transformed before it struck the Chan Kai-wan, the owner of a water into à circle of meshes a dozen

ern Hokkaido.

afflicted coasts, prepared to give aid. from the same. It was brought to The army sent an engineer båt-Hong Kong by his aunt, Mrs. Chan, talion, two cavalry regiments, food, last week and banded by her to medicines, blankets and shelter. Mr. Lonely.

An earthquake at 2.80 o'clock this. The case is proceeding.. morning, ahaking all eastern Japan

and felt as far west as Osaka, was

a prelude to the greater disaster.

About an hour later-the time is variously put at from forty to seventy minutes-the wall of water, from four to ten feet high, struck? the coast of Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori prefectures north of Tokyo:

CLOG THROWN AT SIKH CONSTABLE. Woman Struck By

Missile.

The tug reports that the cargo on

V.S. O. P.

BOTTLED IN

COGNAC AND

GUARANTEED

CORDON BLEU.

(also in square pints)

board, conslating chiefly of fresh private motor car, reported to the yards in circumference. The weight V. V. E. S. O.P. vegetables and Chinese patent me Trafic Office that while reversing round its edges contracted it into a dicines, will not repay the cost of his car in Hillier Btreet, he collided clinging trap from which there was Balvage as the vessel is lying with with a yellow_taxi cab, which no escape,

all except her upperworks, under sustained slight damage to its front! water. If weather conditions per-bumper."

mit an attempt will be made to

Old All Pasha had in his painos ||

| kourbashes made of the bide of one

of the last of the Mentalah hippos,

save the personal effects of the The annual dance, in connection shot by his grandfather on the

The navy rushed ten destroyers a crowd of stall holders in Wan- accommodation Janot submerged, sophies of the Bleed Coulson about the time that Napoleon

A Chinese woman, when passing Captain and officers, as the officers with the presentation of the borders of the estate-somewhere and four seaplanes from nearby chai yesterday, get in the way of a The top is refurbing to Hong Kong Billiards League and the Colony landing in Egypt, Hama had had bases for rescue and relief work na slog thrown by a Chinese youth, at tomorrow and the owners of the Billiards Championship will take an unpleasant sensation when he soon se the severity of the disaster a Sikh coastable. was learned.

vesap) will decide whether salvara place on Saturday, She was taken to the Government operation will be carried out after mening 8.00 Pins

weh. 18, cord», realised that one of the whips was The epicentre of the earthquake Civil Hospital sanering from a con- they have heard the report of Mr. and the Prison Officers' Danes Band bada, rising abord la man's head. Cyril Desks stiff with dried blood. The reed- was estimated by Chinichi Kumi- tusion on the face.

Kinghorn.

"will provide the music.

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BRANDY

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