1923-10-31 — Page 6

Hongkong Telegraph

„Photographs by Our Own Correspondent.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1923.

1913

Left)—This should be a particularly worth- while picture. It is the site of the British Consulate, Yokohama. Alter, the fire men from H.M.S. Hawkins came ashore und cleaned away all the debris and then en the Consulate site they buried the remains of those of the staff who had perished. The names are given.

(Right).—A view on Tukyo's main business artery. The Ginza on which the leading shops were located.

Left-Ruins of Tokyo's Yoshiwara where 2,500 girls perished behind the stuckade that surrounded this restricted district which covered about eight city blocks.

Right)-Bins of the tirani Hotel, at

Yukobama-taken from the Buol,

(Left-Ruins of Standard Oil building on

the Baal, Yakobama.

Right-This perhaps will come to be the one out- standing historie spot in Tokyo of the great disaster-the site of the Army Clothing Factory which included a big rectangle of open ground perhaps 200 vardeby 150 yards in area in the heart of the Hongy district. Tokyo's great industrial centre. When the masses of people found them. selves hemmed in on all sides by Eames they sought safety on this commen. It was in the sxact centre of a vast rearing farmace and all perished. Fourteen days after the disaster when I was there thirty-four thousand eight hundred and some odd bodies had been burned here where they died and as the picture shows the work was still going forward. The white piles are what are left of the bones after doruica nad these datted the whole area of the place besides filing many bins that bad been erected. It

the back ground is the long funeral pyre on which bodies wrapped in straw soaked oil were burning while behind it a group of Buddhist priests conducted funeral rites before a rude altar.

Left-Deenlation like this scene in Yoko- hams covered many square miles. This was in heart of business district.

(Right)-Main Street parallelling the Bund Yokohama on which were located the lealing foreign retail shops.

› Left).--An odd freak. All of the building -

was gone save its chimney with the first and second story fireplaces exposed to the wind. On Water Street Yokohams.

(Right). Shows how Tokyo began rebuilding within two weeks of the disaster. Nothing

at all scarcely had been done at that time in Yokohama,

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