THE JAPANESE DISASTER.
MRS AUSTIN AND HER DAUGHTER’S EXPERIENCE. TOSSED ABOUT LIKE NINEPINS. Osaka, September 10. Mrs and Miss Austin of Foxton, were seeing a friend off on the Empress Australia when the disaster occurred. “We were tossed about like ninepins,” they said. “The pier ends disappeared under water, and the earth came up in the harbour. We were stranded on an island and had to wade ashore, where we saw terrible devastation. In thirty seconds everything was levelled as flat as a pancake. We managed to struggle through the blocked streets where people were pinned under wreckage, and flames were jumping up from every side, to Hibiya Park. Columns of smoke ascended into the sky like a volcano, and the harbour soon became a blazing mass with the oil pouring down from the tanks.” Finally they went aboard the Empress Australia, and were taken to Kobe.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2631, 11 September 1923, Page 3
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147THE JAPANESE DISASTER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2631, 11 September 1923, Page 3
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