CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922 — Page 434

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have been up-rooted, and the garden is ruined.

Many years has been wiped-out in a single night.

The work of

But it is on the Kialat, or Ewatov olty, side that the

worst state of affairs existe. There thê situation is

serious. Ever increasing piles of unburied corpses, a great

shortage of food, scarcely any fresh water obtainable, no

street lighting at night, no police fanationing, godowne

stored with what was once valuable cargo and houses in ruins,"

but it is unnecessary to sđã nnything more to indicate the

possibility of grave trouble arising.

Fartly with a view to maintaining telegraphic communios-

tion with Hongkong, the lani vires, of course, being destroyed

I today made use of the wireless of the S.8, "Kwaisang", at

present in port, but leaving shortly, in order to suggest to

the Naval Authorities at liongkong the advisability of sending

a warship of sorts here, if one could possibly be spared.

Chiefly, however, ny miggestion was prompted by a desire to

obtain protection for the British vessels "Shangtung" and

"Tungshing", which are mongst the vessels wrecked, having gone ashore in Muddy Bay, on the South-aft sile of the

harbour. These vesels are already being threatened with

attack from boat-loads of bad characters attractet by the

prospect of plunder.

I have, as yet, received no reply to my telogram.

There has been no time yet to ascertain with any degree

of certainty what has happened up-country, the railway to

Chaochowfu being broken, and no launches or junks what is

left of thew - running. It is certain, at all events, that

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the loss of life must have been terrible. Corpses are being

brought

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