JAPANESE DISASTER.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1923, Page 3

JAPANESE DISASTER.

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SEXSATIOXAL STORY. BRAVE .JAPAXESE. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this dav nt 9.15 a.in.) OSAKA, Sept. 13. Mr Cox, of Adelaide, one of the refugees, tells a sensational story. When the earthquake stalled he jumped out of an open window of a house, while two others in the building were killed and one of them was Juel Madsen, the Danish artist, on the staff of the London “Graphic.” When the quake started the sea receded, baring the bottom for half a mile. Then it returned as a roaring wave twenty-five feet high and a cliff live hundred feet high toppled on to the heads of the people. He saw fishing floats, bouses and hundreds of people who were merry making a few minutes before, swept out to sea. According to the latest reports eighty-four thousand dead bodies have been recovered in Tokio and some of the most densely occupied sections are still unexplored. Surveyors tell stones of people trapped in the ennobling liliildings singing the folksongs of Japan while they unflinchingly awaited a certain death. The casualties at the cinemas were especially heavy. TOKIO X ATI OX A L CAPITAL. ~ OSAKA. Scot. 13. An Imperial rescript issued appeals to the nation for a supreme effort to restore the sfabilitv of national sentiment and emphasises the necessity of not only restoring hut further developing Tokio, as the recognised poiitical and economic centre of Japan. The rescript says Tokio remained the national capital. Although the outward structure has been destroyed, special arrangements wore being made for it-, revival.

.1A PAX’S APPREC 1 ATI OX. .MKI.BOriiXE. Sen. If. Suzuki conveyed to the GovernorGeneral. a cable Iron) the Japanese Alini stcr of Foreign Affairs expressing appreciation of the Common wealth's relief measures.