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THE HONGKONG DAILY PREES, TUESDAY,

THE CATASTROPHE IN

JAPAN.

FURTHER NARRATIVES BY SURVIVORS

THE HEART-RENDING SCENES IN

YOKOHAMA.

(SEVERAL OFFICIAL BUILDINGS IN TOKYO 'SURVIVE..

+ LATEST.. DANLES.

THROUGH NEUTER'S-AGENCY,} THE DAMAČE DONE, IN TOKYÓ,

OSAKA, September 10th.

We could distinctly hear her cries for help to the last. I resumed my search for my wife, and is I walked by the sile of the creek the smoke was terrible. There were dead and dying everywhere. A Reuter's 'incssage frina Token reports Then I met a friend why said he had scen

1 that with the exception of the Home.

my wife in the Park. I threw my arms Ofice id the Finance Department, around him and rushed to the Park. nearly all the official batiklinges escaped There were awful sights en route. the flames. The following are still stand found thousands in the Park, which was ing though badly shaken, and in some surrounded on all four sides by burning imiohabitable: Foreiza (re, | buildings; and looked like becoining a

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SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1923

1000 BURNED AND TRAMPLED NEWS OF FOREIGN RÈSIDENTS.

TO DEATH IN A COMPOUND,

Osaka, September, inth.

It is ow established that the major partion of Tokyo's fatalities occurred "in one place, namely, the Military Clothing Depot at the Honjo Ward, where over S1000 parished. The actual circumstances leming to the terrible tragedy are now described by a jpg man named Kawas

MESSAGE FROM HIM,S, “DESPATCH."

The following message from HMS. Despatch ins been received at the office of the Naval Secretary:-

KELJET FROM MANILA,

WHAT WAS SHIPPED IN 24 HOURS.

The United States Army Transport Merritt sailed from Manita on the 8th inst.,

for relief work az Yokohama. Some delay was experienced on recount of several

Canadian Pacific.—Jack Rend and P. 7gs of Filipino stesedures who took J. advantage of the situation to strikes for

Wevil dead, remainder safe,

Jardins's,-. and Mine, Viet missing.

more pay.

shima, who miraculously saved his life remainder safe. (M. Viel is on theplies, all of which, with the exception of Her curgh consisted of 2,500 tons of sup- and reached Danka to-day. He mid he rushed to take refuge in the great open space of the'Military Clothing Depot, which

Cadre Lelion),

Butterfield & Swire-No members of

twelve and a half tons of rice furnished by the Red Cross, was provided by the Army

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U.S. NAVAL DISASTER DESTROYERS PILE UP ON ROCK

"ONE AFTER ANOTHER.

ST. BARRIE, September 9th. The oven destroyers, mentioned earlier,

The Botilla was engaged in practice a piled up on a rock,

ervising.

[The twenty-five men who perished" wieru

trapped in their bunks and drowned.

The destroyers turned over within two, minutes after the crash.

Över five-hundred men were rescued, of. whom fifteen had been seriously injured.

had an area of over ten neres caclosed / firm now in Yokohamaawould suggest re- from its reserve stocks and by Incql; One hundred others, despite cuts and

bruises, swam to safety over the jagged rocks,"

by brick walls. Reaching there, he found ference to Harley at Kpl Following chise. tene of thousands already gathered. Late kuown to be safe; Mr. and Mrs. Harley, in the afternoon, a terrific east win Mears, Foast, Lanyon, Macean and plies necessary to handle the situation us The destroyers were travelling in for

hrought with it burning fantes which were so hot even in this wide rendezvous that hair and faces were actually burned, Naturally there was a rush westward in the enclosed space, causing a tremendous stampede in which thousands died, being trampled by the flow of men. eyelone actually blew Kawashim to a point where there was a peol with water

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Netsuan,

Jea).

It is hard to realize the amount of sup

'por exists in Japan and how well-equipped nation at

2 speed of twenty, knotg in, (This is the first news of Mr. Muc- the American Army in the Philippines ia to heavy sea and a denso tog when the.

'do its share, says the Manila Times leader of the flotilla crashed.

A strong Mackinnon & Mackenzie,—AR 'safe,

Millions of dollars of food, medical suplide pile up the others in quick sucOUS- Standard Oil-Mr. Shelley reported plies, etc,, have been donated by the Army along the shore at intervals of 250 feet. sion. The seven destroyers lie in a line end, but no other casun'ties, Suggest to the Japanese people. A brief outline with the seas sweeping over them. reference to Kobe,

of the mydient supplies alone, shipped on (Mrs. Sholley and the two children are twenty-four hours notice, will show how safe in Kobe).

rapilly the situation has been met.

There were sent one, reinforced hospital,

tals, 250 beds cali; two field hospitals, 216 each; one evention hospital, 122 bels: 000 completely equipped medical laboratory.

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Dodwell & Co.--Mr. and Mrs. Poolo.

The destroyer Delphy broke up during the night, carrying town a seammin who was blinded with oil and had both legs broken. He was lashed to a mast hoping

General Staff Office, Navy" Department, 'į dsendal trap, " Hundreds ́had collapsed. | breast-deep. Ho plunged in, covering his Mr. and Mrs. Bateman, Mr. Jeffrey, Mr. | 1,800 beds; three hospital ecinpany bopi. that he might be rescued later.

Diet bulding and the Russian, Tuliam, Belgian, and German Endassies. The

Amerien, French 'nhd Chinese were the only Eribassies turneds. The British Fubassy building in whinhabitable, but

of water, almost waist-deep.

sisend?

What

Then Providence, stepped in-the fountain | hend with a wadded cushion. Sa tremen- pipes burst and the Park was soon full daus was the volume of fame converging and the showers of great pieces of burn- ing wood and'ironi, roasting many thou "I remuned for hours in the Park, in i sands alive, that he did not know what the water." Everybody had toru pieces off had happened until the next morning their enthes to cover their hands and when he was rescued by troops together five from the heat,

with twenty or thirty others. The whole compound was covered in nothing hit

the oily house actually buried at the Elass was the fapt Counsellor's The Tokyo Central Station is still stand-Į ing, al all the big mildings flanking it ~ At night-time I heard an Englishunan um both sides of the commercial quarter | shouting:-' f air-here tú save you, folk,' | half-burned corpses. generally known as Marunouchi,

SKARLIER CABLES „HUSBANDS HEARTBREAKING

SEARCH FOR HIS WIFE- JUIGHTFUL SCENES OF HUMAN ASOFish. Kau Keptember 19th. The win.crowded with refugees from the earthquake arbi.

I discovered he had come from the Em- presh if Russia on rescus work and T asked him if he had rescued any foreign wonen. He said: Yes, we have just sent over a lagtload of forty to the fimis. He advised me to give up my deurgh and go on the Empres.to re if she was there. I went and as soon as I was abound seamed the faces of all those forty wonnen, But my wife was not there.

Gordon, Mr Bel', Mr. and Mrs. Ander son known to be sate. Suggest reference

to Kobe.

EARLIER CABLES.

·SEVEN DESTROYERS AŠHORE..

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, sth. An American naval disaster has occurred urthward of Santa Barbara. A flotilla

eco for Santiago on Saturday, went hospital furniture, operuting tables, tan- ashore in a fog at Honda Point, and all

the vessels are badly damaged. It is fear age, and other equipment. In additioned some will be total losses. Twenty fres

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Hero will be sent 15,000 cubic feet of mis lave been lost.

SANTA BARBARA, September sh Japan).

24:cellaneous drugs, chemicals, disinfectants, Twenty-five sailors perished in the wreek of the seven destroyers, all of which are Chartered Bank.--Mr. A. H. Tait, surgical dressings, instruments, and labora- total losses, In his speech at Haudajoville M.Mrs. Nicholl and ellest child, dend; ra. tory equipment. Other equipment includes 10,000 hospital blankets, 3,000 rubber Poincare expressed France's sympathy mailler safe.

blankets, 3,000 each of bed and pillow sucks. with Japan, declaring that when French-

Rising Sun

Petroleum Co.-The total of medical supplies will be ruen learned of the appalling cataclysm Messrs. Cullinan, G. S. Niven, R. Robert- they all remembered Japan's friendly aidon, and Mr. and Mr. F. J. H. Tebbut in the war.

dead, but po other casualties known at 'present.

. and S. Bank-Mr. "Morrison dead, All of these hospitals are completely equip ped, including drug, dressings, instru Mr. R. C. Edwards has had handments, laboratories, dental, X-ray machines, of seven destroyers which left bau Fran- patated, Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe's baby dead; reminder safe.

Mercantile Bank Not known in Yoko

Jardine's are the agents in]

FRENCH SYUPATHY.

PAR, September 9th

AUSTRALIA'S RELIEF EFFORTS,

MELBOURNE, September.oth. Relief efforts dr behalf of the Japanese are actively progressing. A movement is stoot for Australian children to collect

Mr. Lantis Julletkin, agent for Swiss watches, related nytypical experience at Yokolina. He saya:-"I was entering

I won't describe to you the secues on my office in the centre of the foreign „settlement at twelve,velock when the the Empres-huslands Iooking for their

wives and mothers looking for their child-relief on behalf of Japanese children,

• building began to away. I stood in the

reu auf hushands. They didn't interest doorway, which is considered the safest

te. Lenning over the rail, I saw what place, eight others prere there.

Tooked like another bontload of refugers enue an awful shock. We-fell and then

coming got near the gangway and got up. The building, which was IL Japanese structure, id agt tall. We when I discovered foreign women in the

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went out and saw housed down all around !

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you enti imagine how ['seanned their faces. They bad all passed aboard and

Prayers have been offered in the churches for the sufferers and the collections met with a generous response.

THE FINANCIAL ASPECT.

OBAKA, September 9tki- Reuter understands that the Bank of Japan will offer financial help to bankers throughout the country. The Bunk of

"I rushed off to find my wife, who had recognised none of them as my wife. Japan at Tokyo holds unissued botes to

been shopping, and had to walk over collapsed roofs through choking dust Thousands were pinced, down in the débris. I heard a man scream and found he was a friend. He had a broken leg, the hones' sticking out at the ankle. He cried Water but there was no water to be had. Heads, arms and legs were protruling out of the débria everywhere, and merous Japanese were rescuing their phildren.

**1 pruereded along the Bund, when the fire, which hitherto had appeared only bere aut there, broke out in earnest. Thousands rushed to the sea to avoid the awful wind-driven bent. Among them I noticed Mr. Edwards, Sub-Manager of the ilongkong and Shaughai Bank, with que hand clean off and his arm stump biceing profusely.

TILA

NEWS GLEANED LOCALLY,

The friends of M. Cuvilier, the Hong kong, Manager of Societe Charbonnages du Tonkin, are anxions ity to his safety M.. Cuvilier recently it Hongkong for a trip to Yokohama and is believed to have been staying in the Oriental Hotel, at Yokohama, when the earthquake ceeur- rd.

A cable has been received at the local offers of the United States Shipping the value of two hundred million yen and Boned from Capt. Eisler stating that be re-covered notes totalling a hundred is safe nt Hakune, * million total of three hundred millinus

The Union Insurance Boeirty of Canton,

Then one came slowly to me it was she But oh, so grey with dust, and eyes red and len with the heat. She had been shopping in the Benten Dori, the well-which the Bank is raidy to place at the Ltd.,have received definite news of the known shopping centre, when the first disposal of bankers, to enable to help slack came, The shop collapsed, but sufferers, nothing hit her. She got out between the rafters and remained in the Park for twelve koura, most of the time waist deep She was then picked up by a in water.

remmer,"

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Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Cu..

safety of. Mr. F. 6. Boyes, the Manager At present, the bankers in Tokyo are, at the Tokyo branch. paying out daily sums not exceeding s hundred you; sotalling an average of four or five million yen. The Osaka have received a telegram from Kobo branch of the Bank of Japan has decided announcing that Mr. R. C. Graff their to render all pussible assistance to private

bankers and thus help commercial and agent at Yokohama and his family are industrial activities. It is believed thi

decision has not only inspired condones safe. Mr. Graff had previously been re but will materially help in the work of ported as anfong the killed. reconstruction.

The following telegram has been receiv- It is reported that the Goverment his already appropriated 8,000,000 Yen for ed from Murnizawa, 'dated the 8th just relief. The Government is prepared to Maconachies, Templetons safe: travel- pay out relief fünds, as required, up to $30,000,000, representing the available ling impossible."

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NEWS OF YOKOHAMA

PORTUGUESE.

PACIFIC MAIL LINER WRECKED.

NINE OF THE CREW STILL MISSING.

rounded out with ever five hundred thousand other items such as rubber gloves

Los Asanas, September 9th. The American steamer Rena „wirelesses, operating tables (50), litters (300),"plaster paris, splints, bath robes (1,500), kerosene that she has rescued the passengers and most of the crew of the Pacific Mail lingt stova (100), night shirts (2,000), hot water fuba, the ex-German ship Gobiens, hut and ice bags 1,000), wound irrigators nine of the latter are missing in an open (300), therinemeters (1.000), towels (14,000), boat, The Cuba is ashore on a reef on San -Miguel Island, and it is feared she will be bottles (15,020), te. The value of the rubber tubing (1,000 yards), medicino

a total loss. medical supplies alone will total over que million dollars."

Other supplies, donated by the War Department, and which were taken by

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{"CUBA” BÉLIEVED TO HAVE SUNK

the ferrill or will be taken by the Meigs,FATE OF CAPTAIN AND SOME OF

“*« CREW' PROBLEMATICAL.

consist of

657,000 pounds of rice. 100,000 pounds of sugar. PG0,000 pounds of four.

75,000 pounds of beans. .... 100,000 pounds of bacoa,

24,000 pounds of fresh roast beef. 40,000 pounds of frozen, beef

0,600 pounds of corned beef hash. 14,500 pounds of canned salmeo. 20,000 pounds of coffer,

3,000 pounds of ten. 03,000 pounds of evaporated milk. 13,000 pounds of salt.

9,400 pounds of clam chowder.

600 cans of oxtail soitp. 2,400 caus of tomato soup. 10,000 pounds of fresh frozen livor. 10,000 pounds of fresh pork. 15,000 pounds of butter.

20,000 pounds of fresh frozen mutton. One hundred and fifty large tents were taken on the Merritt for the immediate are of the refugees,.

COMING (COMET.

FROM JUPITER TO LARTH IN THREE TEADS.

Last seen thirteen years ago, the comet discovered by Dr. D'Arrest at Leipzig în 1851 is expected again to come near the earth this summer.d

SAN FRANCISCO, September 8th. The Pacific Mail steamer Cult is by- keved to have aunk after striking the western end of San Miguel Island.

A search for the vessel provel fruitless, but a destroyer picked up scme of the crew and passengers and landed them at Los Angeles. An oil tank vessel in bring ing others to San Francisco.

The Inte of Captain Holland, the Parser, the Chief Steward and eight sea- men who remained aboard), to guard $2,500,000 worth of silver bullion is pro blematical

BATTLESHIPS FOR SALE U.S, NAVY DEPARTMENT CARRYING OUT AGREEMENT.

WASHINGTON, September 9th. The Navy Department is requesting bida for twenty-one battleships and craisers which are to be eliminated from the US," Navy under the Washington Agreement. Ench "ship will be sold whole, but pur chasers must complete scrapping within eighteen months......

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WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC

DISCUSSION AT LEAGUE OF NATIONS ASSEMBLY.

THE YOKOHAMA INFERNO.

ALUFF RESIDENT'S EXPERIENCE.

NAGASAKI, September 10th. Mr. George Firth, of Measra. Samuel, Samuel and Company, was lying ill at his home beyond the Bluff at Yokohama when the room carecued and the house actually leaped from its foundation. He stagger ed to the door amid the falling window surplus. frames. Two children, aged eighteen 120,000,000 yen, representing mist profit nonths and three years, were playing from re-coinage, will also be used.

detached the course of an interview, the Minister with Japanese children in atructure which rollapsed. For one of Finance is reported to have said it miaute the house was there intret; the is possible Japan will fad it necessary

The Portuguesa Consul-General' in

It passed close to Jupiter three years

GENEVA, September 9th. At the League of Nations' Assembly Numerous foreigners were asking for next, it bad dissolved before my eyes. to seek a loan abroad for reconstruction. Hongkong has received the following go, and suffered serious perturbations

Fissures opened in the earth and it soom-

Manchurian Chinese believing the

discussion of the work of the fifth-Com- through the attraction of the big planet. their wives, The Grand Hotel did noted as if the whole side of the hill above Japanese financial world to be destroyed, cables from Kobo:---

That fact has made it difficult to premission on the white slave trafic, Chao was sliding upon me. A neighbouring are reported to be selling Japanese Bunk "Saved (at Kohe) Temotio Silva and dict exactly where and when the comet Hair Chu said that while approving of completely collapse. Everybody was now

house with a rock foundation stood. Notes, which are depreciating rapidly family, Jose Costa and family, Medina will turn up this year (ays the Daily the prevention of employment of foreign women prostitutes in licensed houses, he rushing to the вед to avoid the beat.

Of 3 Tokyo Life Insurance Companies family, Lopes, Maria Figueiredo, Tchai, Chranarie) it is reported that only 11 are able to Guteres "family, There were thousands in the water, some

Carneiro is injured But the most reliable calculations show agroented the abolition of legalised moet payments.

Ribeiro and thirteen of family are dead. that it is moring towards the earth, with prostitation everyutere, declaring that it swimming to various boats, -some lying

Saved include Paquito Lucas and Lon- the fixed stars of Hercules as a back was unworthy for an honest Government the edge, and some in up to their

renco Fania There is a report that the ground. necks, with their hands over their faces

saved include Jenny and Elocnor Farias, and the Mendonci family Fernandes is or hands to protect themselves from the

hew of Brandao, dead. There is no

heat of pe burning city.

Paes, Pinto, Cruz, Ado Xavier and the others."

"on'

£:

“Covering my face with my coat, 1 came out of the water to have a final search for

wife. Just bore at George Kotor, of Kuha and Komor, Ltd. standing opposite his tumble-down house, near what had been the Grand Hotel, shouting something very loud, "I went close to him and listened. This is what he was shouting: I offer ten thousand yen to whoever gets out my wife. He was standing waiat deep in débris and Just pointing towards a woman's lead stleking out high up from a pile of wood The body was pinced and could not move. She saw her husband but it was utterly impossible to get near her. The fire was couring on fait on both sidea. The fire swept up and soon caught the wood pile and the poor woman was consumed before

our eyes.

The first shock lasted perhaps three The minutes, though it seemed houra children were pinned beneath the wreck ago, but were not hurt. I had time to get them out before the second shock. There were at least five within fifteen minutes, and then at intervals during the whole afternoon and night.

tórium.

The Yokohama Specke Banks is paying foreign depositors fully, but is withhold- ng Japanese payments under the Mora The Kobe Chamber of Commerce has I took the children into the garden. which was

soon filled with Japanese appropriate the fund to establish a scurrying from every direction, carrying Silk Inspector Inspection Bureau and it handles, but all were enlo and unexcited propone to continue raw silk exports, un

"In the meantime, Yokohama as a operating with American purchasers. roaring furnace below the Elaf, with TOKYO BRITISHERS MISSING. explosions, evidently from underground gasoline tnaks. Nothing harded on the ill. The fire stopped at the gate of the temple just helow.

NEW YORK, September 9th. British subjects in Tokyo are known to A message from Oakn states that 21

be deal or reporteil missing.

We lay all night. in the garden on mattresses saved from the wreckage. TheTHE DAMAGE AND CASUALTIES. first shocks were accompanied by a lower. ing noise like a heavy wind, though the day was beautifully quiet.

September 10th:"Saved, at Kole, clude Cruz, thu Mendonien family, and Figueiredo. There is a report that the Raved include. Brandao and· Pard."?

THE BRITISH WARSHIPS.

It is in that region of the sky, which after sunset is now well placed just out of the meridian, and due south shortly afterwards, that the search for the comet is being made stonesto se

It should be nearest the earth at the end of July, and brightest towards the end of August, --

SCARLET FEVER BACILLUS.

ITALIAN DOCTORS”, DISCOVERY.

to derive revenue from a source which

caused great harm to the people and damaged the prestige of Government.

He advocated women police and the appointment of exports to investigate the problem on the spot

He pointed out that only fourteen. nations bad ratified the 1921 Convention of which six were members of the British Empire, and he urged others to follow this example.

As regards

China ratification was only a matter of form. He urged publicity in order to arouse international public opinion against the traffic,

The Italian newspapers on July 218 IRISH FREE STATE ADMITTED contained accounts of a discovery which

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EL.M.S. Ambrose, with medical storps ORAKA, September 9th. and supplies, left Hongkong for Yoko All istinites of the damage and the ham on Sunday afternoon. De has been made by two Italian-doctors, Ch. "Stinday orning there was; u number of victims are highly speculative, II.M.S. Hauling, with the Admirat on Dr. di Cristina, director of the Children's

GEFEVA, September 9th hentie norise. The flames seemed but from all accounts, 150,000 were killed board, was due at Kobo yesterday after Hospital at Palermo, and Dr. Caronia.The Assembly unsuimously granted the subdued, but they suddenly started afresh and double that number injured at noon....

director of the Children's Hospital at admission of the Irish Eres State to the and within an hour the air, was full of Yokohamır" (*), flames and smoke again. The flames

H.M.S. Foxglove arrived at Shanghai Rome, of the scarlet fever bacillus The League of Nations,

doctors are sending records of cases it The result of the yote was greeted witlr on the 7th inst.

which the disease has been wardod off by oud and prolonged cheers/- H.M.A. Nucula leaves Weibaini for infections of gerum, to all hospitals and Nagasaki to-day.

(Eurtier Cables na pago 5.)

Torro, September 9th. noemel to jump over wide apnees, attack- It is officially stated that the casual ing detached houses particularly, Nothing ties at Yokohainm were 23,000 dead and ercaped.

40,000 injured.