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THE EARTHQUAKE.

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THW BONGION DAILY FRE

FIRST GRAPHIC DETAILS BY

SURVIVORS

HORRIFYING EXPERIENCES: SOME WONDERFUL ESCAPES.

YOKOHAMA MOLE "HUMPED 36 FT. IN THE AIR. A CROWD OF BRITISH RESIDENTS ON IT BIDDING FAREWELL

·TO DEPARTING PÀSSENGERS.

BARZEST CABLES.

(THROUGH REUTER'A AGENCY.] SCENES RIVALLING REPRESENTA-

TIONS OF THE BUDDHIST

HELL.

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Konz, September 9th.

HOW MANY FOREIGNERS"

WERE SAVEN.

*Osaka, September oth Renter's Special Correspondent says: The death roll at Yokohama among for. eigners would have been greater but for

the fact that hundreds crowded near the The stories told by survivers arriving | Empress of Australia while she was stand- at Kole by the Huporn of Atlasing at the quay ready to depart frond Yokohama depict scones rivalling in horror" the popmine representations of the Buddhist Hell

* Business taen were about to leave their offices at the close of the morning's work when,`suddenly and without warning. with a wremendous roar, the ground heated up four or five feet, and fell down again. The shock hutteil thirty seconds, All foreign buildings crampled up like paper. The houses on the Bhiff were precipitated headlong into the city. „Huge crevasses 'gued in the ground which peeked, henved and swaged like waves of the sea.

twelve o'clock, noch, just when she was due to leave the first shock occurred. There was a rush for her by the big crowds, most of whom were fortunately able to board her. The quay subsequent ly sank, being partially submerged and in places it collapsed. Sounding yester day show the sea bottom in the harbour to he several feet lower.

DEAD CREMATED IN THE STREET BEFORE BURIAL.

"At a meeting of American, British and Japanese officials abouri an American warship, permission was, granted to bury the foreign dead, but only after crema.

All Japanese dead have been cremated on wood piles in the streets of Tokyo and Yokohama. The foreign dend are being similarly burned.

Furitives Secing from falling Biklingson. foundethe way blocked by huge gaping holes, some capable of completely bury ing a horsecart.

Immediately afterwards big fires began, the flames, fagued by rising wind, rapidly spreading until the city weird to be en veloped in a vast cloak of fhime. The smoke from the barning buildings at first lisured the sight, but it was later dear ed by the wind, enabling the survivors to befohl the devastation of their homes.

A TÄLL STORY. Tomates of the Marunouchi building, one of the highest in Tukyu, bad lucky escapes. The luge structure swayed but didn't come down. It is believed now in he leaning somewhat.

The following story was told me by a creditable person: When the first shock Thousands of Japanese mished to Yokoccurred a dentist was in the upper huma park seeking safety in open spaces, stories of this building attending a pati

An added terror was the rising waterent, both decided that they laid better from burst water misins which, with the get to the ground floor quickly, by the fire, blocked all exist from the city), time they reached it, the building had Many hundreds sought excape from a steadied itself, and feeling that they had Dory death by rushing towards the Motu disturbed themselves unduly they decided maachi canal, hoping to find refuge on the to return to the dentist's room and fnish other sile, but the flames drifted across the operation, which they did in total the canal setting fire to the houses on ignorance of the catastrophe that had the opposite bank. Some people enden happened around them'' vouring to cross on wooden lighters were" À BRITISH RESIDENT'S EXPERI- overtaken by blazing bil which was flow

"ENCES AT MAKONE Ang from exploded oiltanks, met a ter

OSARA, September 9th. rible death. Others, panic-stricken, dung

Reuter's Special Cerrespondent wires: themselves into the water, meeting a like The terrible experiences of a small hand fute. The canal was choked with floating of foreigners who were at Hakone was described to me by a prominent British resident in the following terms:

coruses,

People leapt into the sea from the waterfrout and waded out in an unden.

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As a minute to twelve there was a vour to escape the deluge of red-hot

Then cinders streaming from the blazing ruins,sound like very heavy thunder.

og of hundreds of victims.

came the most dreadful earthquake shock

angst which lay the charred corpses imaginable. At the first sign of the tremor my wife and I rushed for the open The British colony had gathered at noon

door, but as we reached it the full shock d the jetty, alungsido the Empress, of Australia to bid farewell to outgoing was upon us, and we were literally pitch- „-passengers, when the mole pumpeded across the road. We both got up a caterpillar in several places thirty together, then a second shock came and It subsided and ross threw us again to the ground. Great fissures appeared, the ground seeming to tear itself open all over the place, but not deeply. "We half crawled and half walked to a small plateau, where our children were, and remained there while

宫吧法。

like feet in the air, again, hually collapsing jato" the Some flung themselves into the sen and clung to fragments of floating wood; others, more fortunate were left isolated on a remuant of the mole, whence they

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PRICELESS AKT TREASURES OBLITERATED.

Osaka, September 9th. Reuter's Special Correspondent says that despite reports to the contrary pre- valent in China, the Government con- tinues to function not from Osaka but from Tokyo. Precisely where it is fuais tioning there is not known here.

Apart from sea and heroplane there is practically no communication with the eapital

HONDAY, SEPTEMBER Ira, 1923

REMARKABLE · IMPROVEMENT IN A WEEK.

After one week of supreme · effort throughout the country, conditions in Tokyo show remarkable improvement. The supply of enough food to go around among the victims is now practically asureet: clothing is still wanted, ošpeci- ally in view of the cool weather coming.

ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCE OF whit the latter is well-known to ship

DISASTER.

ing people in Hongkong, having at one Nidar, September 7th.

time been purser on one of the Shipping Considerable anxiety is felt everywhere Board vessels. The following is a list of regarding the economie consequence of the passenger, who disembarked at Yoke. the disaster, but a great reassuring feu hama: ture is the fact that Osaka is outside the

zone of the disaster,

The consensus of opinion' among the

The great problem yet to be solved isleading hackers here is one of optimism that of housing millions. This is particu-regarding the ability of the Japanske larly pressing because the rainfall is very banks to mort all their obligations, pro- frequent in Japan.

vided no pańcessary alarmist rumours disturb the confidence of depositors.

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All estimates of the value of the dan age and the number of victims are highly speculative, but from all accounts the figures of 150,000 killed, and 300,000 in- jured in Yokohama and Tokyo combined are probably not far off the mark. Theis numbered by thousands every day, who Fortunately, there is no sign of that at

latest offcial estimate of the homeless

Tokyo, alone is 1,350,000, and in Yoko bania 400,000

I find that some of the earlier wireless reports of the amount of destruction are not quite correct. For example, the In perial University is not wholly destroyed.

that architecturally unique structure the Teperial Hotel is still standing.

In the great conßagration which suc ceeded the earthanake, apart from the tosses of publie buildings, numerous price. less art collections were obliteratel;" "The fate of Dr. Morrison's Famous library, which Baron Iwasaki presented to the Imperial University is not know. If, as is believed, it was still being classified nt Baron Iwasaki's Tokyo house, then, probably, it was destroyed by the fire

gutteil that fine new residence..

- CASUALTIES 80 PER CENT." OF YOKOHAMA'S POPULATION.

LATER.

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The exodus from Tokyo by rail aml sco

go to seek shelter with friends and yela | present.

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tives in the unaffected zone, hat it is, Of the Tokyo banks, for instance, the believed that barracks must be Built in Mitsu Bishi, the Yokohama Specic Bank, the Bank of Taiwan, the Industrial Bank Tokyo for a million homeless persons.

Martial law continuus. in Tokyo and Yokuhaus and the surrounding district and peace and order are well ninintained. RECONSTRUCTION OF TOKYO.

OSAKA, September 9th.

It is understood that experts of the Home Department Kare nlready decided on the general plan for the reconstruction of the Empire's Capital.

According to the latest report 71 per cent, of Tokyo's huildings bave been dani- § aged, burned or destroyed; and s per cent. of Tokyo's population are affected.

MUNIFICENT DONATIONS BY

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MILLIONAIRES,

Baron Sumitomo has contributed two at Yokolinum where casualties are eighty | and a half million yen, Mr. Yasuda two per cent, of the total population. The millions, and Haron-Ökura one million shock there was much worse than at ven. Tokyo. Hardly a wall is left standing. The streets are literally chocked with dend and débris,

the sea

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CONFIDENCE IN THE JAPANESE PEOPLE.

After the first shock the place was "Aat.

The Manchester Ceration in ù special escaped American, article on Japan's place among the swizt 2471 Twas hell let use when the fire Powers says there does not appear to started. Then came half a cyclone with be any senson for extreme pessimism gale blowing seaward. We rushed into regarding the future. The Japanese are hours there up to the neck. God knows ing, hopeless and in despair. The writer

escape burning, and remained not the sort of people to sit down weep what the thousands of poor devils suf-confidently expresses the opinion that fered who were maimed or pinned under within five years a new Tokyo and Yoko tumbled buildings.

ham will arise on the ruins with long overdue improvements, making these cities n real credit to the country.

WONDERFUL' ESCAPES.

There were some wonderful escapes. One foreixa woman was in a bath on the second storey of a two storey house when the place collapsed, except the bathroom

which remained intact, enabling her to get out of the window on to the street where n passing Japanese gave her his kimono.

A most remarkable case is that of at house on the Hall. The latter subsided. bringing the house down, but the house itself did not collapse till it bad hoen minutes on the grass hundred feet below. All the innuates had time to leave it.

DUTCH CONSUL KILLED.

TOKYO, September 9th. The Dutch Cunsul was among those instantly killed by the earthquake at Yokohnina.

THE MANSION HOUSE FUND.

LONDON, September 9th H. M. the Queer has donated £50. to the Lord Mayor's Japanese Fund.

RELIEF FUND IN FINLAND.

BLSINGFORS September 9th A fund is shortly being opened for the relief of distress in Japan.

ONLY ONE FOREIGNER KILLED AT MIYANOSHITA.

SHANGHAI, September 9th. A British naval wireless message states that only one casualty, German, is reported from Miyanoshita

ITALIAN CONSUL SAFE

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OSAKA, September 8th. The Italian Consul, Signor Garço, is now reported alive aboard the Italian warship.

THEORIES AS TO CAUSE OF THE

CATASTROPHE

THE LONDON RELIEF FUND.

Loxpox. September 9th. The Lord Mayor's Fund at present amounts to £70,000. A first instabent of £30,000 has been already handed to the Japanese Ambassador. MELBOURNE NEWSPAPER'S RELIEF FUND.

MELBOURNE. September 8th. The Japanese relief fund organised by the Melbourne Argu, has reached £11,000

GERMANY AND JAPAN.

The Obarreer' Berlin Correspondent says the catastrophe in Japan-has had political effects in Germany where dreams had been visualised of a Russo-Japanese niliance designed to unite Germany. Russia and Japan in a powerful political combination. Ho declares that the dis | aster has dashed these hopes.

The Observer, in a leader, emphatically refuses to believe the suggestion that Japan's position as a world Power will suffer any eclipse. To doubt that she will recover as surely, as swiftly and na completely as California recovered, is to deny the modern miracle which the power of Japan presents.

SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION FROM

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LONDON, September 8th flussian Academy of Sciences is about to Advices from "osenw state that the send an expedition to Japan.

EABLIER CABLES. THE EMBASSIES AT TOKYO.

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Mig Anne Peavey... Miss M., Tomlin.

Dr. A. D. Berry,

Mr. A. G. Henderson, Chiengó. Capt. W. E. Eisler, Shanghai. Dr. A. G. Ellis, Philadelphia. Rev. Leo. C. Lake wife and 2 children

Princetown, N.J.

Mrs. M. Graham, Denver Ill. Mr. C. J. Cressloy, wife and daughter

Gertrude, Brigdeport, Coon.

Mrs C. C. Hopkirk, and daughter..

Chicago.

Mr. Gerald S. Myndle, New York:

Miss M. E. Rowland, Washingtatt..

D.C.

His, Sarah McDadit. Minneapolis,

Res. R. T. Coit, wife and 4 children,.

Greenborough, N.C.

Mr. E. H. Hamilton, Atlanta."

of Japan, the Sumitomo. Bank, the Thirty-Fourth Bank and the Yamaguchi RELIEF WORK BY THE O.S.E Bank are all commencing payments to- day between the hours of 11 and 2 to the The Hongkong office of the Osak amount of sum; not exeresting Yer too, Shosen Kaisha has kindly supplied us but it is believed that they will be with a rough translation of a cable des- able to pay beyond that sum when they patched from the Company's Head Offter,.

in Osaka, on September 7th. It says:-

me lit.

If there is any run on these backs to-day, the Bank of Japan is ready to

wist to the maximum.

The Bank of Japan building, the vaults of the Yokohama Specie Bank and important,books and papers are all safe, PREMIER'S APPEAL TO THE 'NATION.

"As soon as the catastrophe, in the Keihin strict was ascertained, we made overy possible, arrangement at once and Hara and the Harbin Karu on that day despatched two steamers, the Chicago

as relief steamers. We subsequently des- patched '10, steamers, including the Andes Maru and the Altai Maru, aggregating. 40,000 tons, for the purpose of carrying 50,000 koku of Government rice and relieE materials.

NAGASAKI, September 7th, Premier Yamamoto, in a public state

When the catastrophe happened, our ment, has appealled to the masses of the London Mars and Paris Maru were lying: people urging self-control, -- We must show that even in times of disturbance in the harbour of Yokohama and took the Japanese are able to keep a balance the Kwansai district with their, wireless over 1,000 sufferers, communicating with of mind do what is right, chey orders telegraph. Our Company is now carry- and love penes,"

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Premier Yamamoto insisty upon the sufferers and relief materials without it is trne protection of peaceful Koreans, even if charge and we have established an inde elements have riated.

that some of their unruly pendeat Bureau for carrying the relief materials and sufferers. Public ordér je Prentice Yamamoto points out that any now becoming gradually normal." attempt at retaliation is harmful to the spirit of unity and assimiliation of the Koreans and the Japanese.

General Fukuda,commander of martial-law, has declared that even if countrymen, and they must be protected they are extreme Socialists, they are our

in such a disaster.

**EMPRESS OF AUSTRÁLTA "

TEMPORARY RELIEF

HEADQUARTERS.

AS

JAPANESE RELIEF FUND..

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WORLD THEATREJS

PARTICIPATION.

The proprietors of the World Theatre. desirous of participating in the Relief Fund, in aid of the sufferers of the Japanese nation, by the recent, terrible catastrophe, "have decided to devote the entire proceeds of the special perform zuces to be given to-morrow (Tuesday), the 11th inat,, at 1.20, 3.15, 7.15 and 9.15 p.m., and they hope their patrons will not fail to appear at those performancy. "Following letfor report from so as to enable them to present to the Rankin Enures" of Australia secured Relief Committee a substantial sum. diver from Japanese warship with

The Canadian Pacific Steamship Co. have received the following cable from their Agent at Kobe :-

whose assistance propeller was cleared

Tuesday afternoon. No further damage CAPTAIN AND MRS. SWAIN DEAD. found and both engines working satis factorily. British Government Tues- day afternoon instructed

Captain

Amcng the foreigners who perished at Yokohamu were Captain and Mrs. Swain,

Robinson held ship Yokohama as hend Captain Swain was formerly Commodore quarters for direction operations for of the N.Y.K. Fleet, relief British and American refugees until arrival British warship Inking Bow on route Yokohama." --

REFUGEES REACH.

HONGKONG TO-DAY,"

For the time heing all Westbound Canadian Pacific steamers will be des patched from Vancouver to Kobe diroet, WORK OF THE RELIEF COMMITTEE. and Eastbound steamers will be despatch- ed from Shimidzu to Vancouver. **PRESIDENT MADISON" ARRIVES

FROM JAPAN.

PASSENGERS WHO DISEMBARKED AT YOKOHAMA,

The Admiral Oriental liner, President NAGASAKI, September 7th.

Madison arrived from Kobe via Shanghai Four representatives have been des shortly after tiffin time on Saturday. She patched to Tokyo from Nagoya and left Kobe about 2 hours after the com- they report that the American and French and Yokohama and at the time of her Osaka. They all reached Tokyo safely; mencement of the earthquake at Tokyo Embassies and the Chinese Legation were departure those on board had only a burned down,

vague idea of what had occurred at these The British and other Embassies and two cities. The liner was entering Kobo Legations were not burned but were ser harbour when the first earthquake shock occurred that destroyed Tokyo and Yoko- iously damaged by the earthquake.

At Yokohama, all the Consulates were hama. She was at that time riding over destroyed by the earthquake and fire. calia sea what suddenly the shivered from stem to steru and those on board felt a "quer shaking" of the ship. She rolled slightly and that was all she felt. The dianster in Japan was publicly it was not generally known in Kobe signs of eruption. Professor Nakamura mourned throughout Franco. The flags until the following morning, Sunday, of the Imperial Observatory is hurrying on public buildings were half-masted and that such a terrible catastrophy had taken thither aboard destroyer to make ob theatres were closed. It was decided at place as ordinary means of communica

There are various theories as to the precise cause of the catastrophe, The Central Observatory at Tokyo has just souneed that the first earthquake on Saturday originated in a landslip under the sea, halfway between Atemi hot spring, and Oshima Istund, off the coast' of the Idan Peninsula. (Incidentally the same Observatory states that the islands off Idea Peninsula are at present abowing

MOURNING IN FRANCE.

PARIS, September 7th.

Yesterday morning, the following cable reached Hongkong from Shanghai:-

Chinese Merchants and Benevolent. Associations, Hongkong. W

Two hundred and fifty Chinese sur- vivors from the Yokohama catastrophe will arrive on board the Empress of Canada.

10. They are all reduced appalling destitution and will have to depend on your brotherly assistance Please arrange for meeting them and providing accommodation, clothing and other necessities. We have done our best in financial assistance but this is far from being enough. Wo appeal to you to do your best for these com patriots crushed under the blow of cala- mity.

Chinose crew and passengers

on board 3.5 Empress of Canada,

The Belief Committee has undertaken to. provide accommodation in Chinese board- ing houses for the refugees, until other arrangements can be made

THE LOCAL BELIEF TUUD.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking

· werd taken off. by boats from the Empres, shock succeeded shock for four hours. servations.) On the other hand the Chief other pluers of entertainment to organisation had been cut off. The residents re-

·President Jefferson, the courage of, whose wore utterly, panic-stricken for the first shock was due to the contraction of the Japanese sufferers instead of closing which for relieving the distressed cities were at with a contribution of $30,000, the Govern- crews is enthusiastically lauded by the few hours, but during the last hundred the Tokyo district, at the same place where los to the theatrical profcasion.

survivors,

GREAT OIL TANKS EXPLODE. At the first shock, the great off tauks on the hillside above Yokosuka naval station exploded and millions of tons of wil were swept down upon the city, awetymorphosising the harbour, into a sea kat flaan.

The walls of Negishi prison collapsed and five thousand convicts were released, the most desperats of whom sought profit in the calamity by looting. There were anany cases of robbing sad murdering disabled people but hastily-formed bodies

or so of shocks on the second day [there were over 700 in forty-eight hours they didn't mind in the least. Indeed, they played through without noticing then It was the most appallingly awful time I've ever spent."

JUEL MADSEN KILLED.

ORAKA, September 9th." The Danish painter, Juel Madsen, em ployed by The Graphit, London, www killed at Kamakurn

AMERICAN AMBASSADOR» AND WIFE SAFE

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OSAKA, September 9th..

of citizens hunted out the miscreants and The report that the American Ambas cxnoted a primary death penalty

! sador and his wife are dead is incorrect. The American hospital is reported to It is officially announced that they are havo bera hurled from the Bluff into the sale. The only ensualty among the cemetery, tearing open the barth and American Embassy staffing ab exhuming vorpacs.

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earth's crust practically in the centre of it was considered would cause needles it contructed with such disastrous con- sequences in 1650. Another theory is that the whole series' of earthquakes is due to the volcanic activity of wbut is known as the volcanic range of mountains, in- hiding the Fuji, Hakone and Idzu Peninsula group.

The shape of Mount Fuji is changed-

a fact not observable till to-day, owing

[FROM THE "DAİLY OCLLETİN.”] FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES" RESPONSIBILITY.

NAGASAKI, September 7th.

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once taken in hand. Most of the ships taken in most of the Churches, yesterday, ́ment's vote of $250,000: Collections were in port wero rushed back to Yokohama on behalf of the Relief Fund. A consider. to render whatever service was possible. abla number of subscriptions have already It was contemplated to send the President been received from arms and individuals Madison back but it was later considered; and a full list will be issued by the Com that an so many sossels had left and were mitteo almost immediately. leaving for Yokohama her services were not required.

A roply has been received to a cable advising the despatch of supplies to Kobe,

-It states:

ted,

The news of the earthquake caused con siderable consternation on bout the The Japanese insurance companies are President Madison for on the day pre-

Telegram received during sitting Kobo to its having hean in the clouds since the legally absolved by virtue of a clause re- vious to the catastrophy she had landed

Yokohamn Foreign Board of Trado.: earthquake. The area of Tokyo swept by inting to their responsibility arising from at Tokobamal between 20 and 40 foreign

Message communicated greatly apprecia.. the fire which destroved over 300,000 fires dus directly or indirectly from earth passengers most of these being Americans. houses and public buildings includes the quake, following wards, which, marked on the

The majority of these, are believed to LOSING ACCOMMODATION FOR FORLIGNERS. The policy-holders will merely receive have been accommodated at the Grand The excessity being apparent for some map, gives a good idea of the enormous a refund covering the unexpired period Hotel, which was demolished in the up- kind of accommodation at Yokohame for

Where nearly every structure was' de- extent of the destruction.jpg of their policy.

heaval. Those on board the linor had not foreigners with vital interests there, nego Following the example of the American heard whether any of the disembarked tiations are proceeding for the provision of stroyed-Fukagawa,

Honjo, Asakusa underwriters at the time of the earth passagers had been saved. Amongst a steamer to be used as a fosting resi (where the famous Kwannon temple alone quake at San Francisco, the Japanese these pro Capt. W. E. Eisler, repredence and to provide office and storage Kanda, Kyobashi, (Hams Imperial Villa offer a certain solatium besides the an- in the Far East; and Mr. AG Honders Chino in stormco, but remains standing), Shitaya, Nihonbashi, underwriters will probably voluntarily sentative of the United Shipping Board

Becommodation The Committee has. the is not destroyed), and Shiba.

expired portion, an

decision regarding what action, they appointment as representative of the it is not known yet whether the vessel will son of Chicago, who was to take of an have been addressed to San Francisco, but will take is shortly expected, reGreat Northern Railway. The former bo susilable:

The extent of the damage is at present gentleman was well-known in Shanghai

(Other Cables on page 3.)

machi; Hongo. ¿

Partially destroyed-Akazaka, Koji

Slightly damaged :-Yotsuya, Azabu, Ushirome, and Koishiga

tunascertainable.

where he has resided for some time,