300 MILES OF COUNTRY DEVASTATED
_ 3rd September. lhe 'Daily Chronicle's" New York correspondent states that radio messages report that the earthquake lasted ninety minutes, and caused devastation over 300 miles of the most thickly populated area of Japan, which later became a mass of flames. A tower 220 feet high in Asakusa Park, a Tokio pleasure garden collapsed, killing seven hundred people. , AH bridges and many railway stations tumbled into ruins There is great anxiety regarding the fate of British and American residents especially in Yokohama, where a tidal wave sent' the inhabitants flying tarrorstncken to the interior, but the majority of foreigners have homes on the higher land of Yokohama, so may have escaped
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 4 September 1923, Page 7
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115300 MILES OF COUNTRY DEVASTATED Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 4 September 1923, Page 7
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