JAPANESE DISASTER.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1923, Page 3

JAPANESE DISASTER.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BUILDINGS STILL STANDING. /Received this day at 8 a.m.) OSAKA, September 10. Repoi ts from Tokio state that, with the exception of the Home Office, and the Finance Department, nearly all tlio official buildings escaped the flame. The following buildings arc still standing, though badly shaken, and in some cases- uninhabitable :—Foreign Office. General Staff Office, Navy Department, Diet Building and tnc Russian, Italian Belgian and German Embassies. The American, French and Chinese were the only Embassies burned. The British Embassy building is uninhabitable, but the only house actually burned at the Embassy was tlio Japanese Counsellor’s. The Central Station is still .standing, as also are all the big buildings flanking it 011 both sides of the commercial quarter, generally known as Maniinuichi. SY.M RATH V A RPR ROTATED. WASHINGTON. Sept. 11. Ambassador Haitihora has conveyed Ri emcir Yamamoto's acknowledgment of the United States assistance, in the disaster, thus:—"The precious gilt ol American sympathy cannot hut serve the peace of the world, drawing tintwo countries still closer in friendship and trust." RECONSTRUCTION PLANS. .MONEY .MARKET’ TIGHT. v&feceived this dnv at 9.30 a.m.) OSAKA, September 10.

The Minister for Home Affairs, Roto, and the .Mayor of Tokio aie making a special study of thy plans for the reconstruction of the capital and it is understood that experts from the Home Department have already decided on a geenral line of procedure which, will shortly be announced. One question which is being anxiously discussed in business circles is tbo effect of the moratorium upon the money inn 1 kot which lit present is very tight here. Some authorities advocate an

extension of the moratorium outside the earthquake zone. Osaka bankers think tins will be 1111 necessary. Business in foreign exchange is practically at a- standstill, but in view of the necessity of importing foodstuffs and building materials, etc., there is a great demaiTd for sterling and dollars. FOOD POSITION IMPROVED. filbcoived this day at N.stl a.m.) NEW YORK. Sepi. 11. A radio message Iroiu lokio -tales that the Government has tculatiu-ly adopted a plan to rebuild Tokio. Il will resemble s iuewTial the I nited States capital. Meanwhile corpses are still lying about the streets. Japanese industrinlisls have ordered modern technical manufacturing equipment from America., unis assuring the rise ol an entirely modern Tokio from the ashes ol the disaster. Foreign refugees arc being sent, to Kola-, some going directly home. The food situation is much improved with the steady arrival of the relief ships. TOKIO POLK E REPORT. FIRMS MOVING TO OSAKA. (“Sydney Sun" fables). ill'ycved this day at 0.2.) a.m.) OSAKA. Sept, lib The bodies picked up in Yokohama to noon of the 7th. total twenty-three thousand and in Tokio to the Dtli. six tv-live thousand. Mr Daniel Langford, the worlds leading collector of marine shells and professor in the Kcio University is among the dead in Yokohama. thirteen of the sixteen telephone exchanges in Tokio were destroved. There is little tendency towards profiteering since the Government issued its stern notice. The price ot most commodities remains unchanged. Ihe latest police report stales that the buildings destroyed m lokio totul_ !'!)!), the people affected total I .o-l I ,oby ; 393.000 persons are taking refuge m schools, temples and parks, and niX) in other people’s houses. It is estimated that it will lake thirty years to reconstruct Tokio and as a consequence many Japanese and HlO majoritv of foreign firms are planning to move to Osaka and Kobe. Ihe same iipj.lics to nkohama.