JAPANESE DISASTER.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1923, Page 2

JAPANESE DISASTER.

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YOKOHAMA’S RUINS SOME PITIFUL TALES. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION*. "*T SHANGHAI, Sep. 19. A correspondent who revisited Yokohama found a scene of desolation and destruction. The buildings .standing can ho counted on the fingers of ono hand. All are unihabitable. No foreigners remain, except those engaged in relief work. In the tennis court of what was formerly the British Consulate were found the graves of 10 BnU ishers who were killed, with little black crosses hearing their names. Search parties tell pitiful stones. One woman asked a clergyman to liuij her Husband. Ho enquired for the hodv, and she handed linn a handkerchief containing a heap of ashes—all that remained. . . , TT Doctor Kingston, of the British Hospital, returned to search lor the body of his wife. The servants presented him with the incinerated remains in ft b3 The son'aiul daughter-in-law of Mr J P. Mollidoil were pinned under the stairs of the house. They talked to each other till the fare consumedl them. Mr Eastman, a well-known lesiden of the Bluff district, was found on the third day after the fil'd m a J°S k ?“* „el, where lie had crawled with an m}"'file ! ' Correspondent adds:— 1 ‘ Tho question of rebuilding Yokohama will depend on whether, in tho scheme fot the Reconstruction of Tokio. provision is made for making Tokio a greatP° lt > which those in a position to know say is quite possible, by dredging a passage up to the Sliihura.