MARTIAL LAW IN THE CAPITAL
SAN FRANCISCO, 2nd September. Martial law is enforced in Tokio. and nobody is admitted without provisions. The Nippon Bashi ward has been annihilated and eight other wards in the city have been swept by fire. An jviator was unable to see a single house in Kamakura or Yokosuka, as a result of the tidal wave. Fourteen hundred houses were burned in Yokohama. The marine district surrounding Yokosuka was wiped out, ships were stranded, and all the bridges oil the Sumida River were lost. Noshima Kamakura was turned into a muddy sea. Refugees who reached the ■• steamer Korea Maru told harrowing stories. Yokohama's latest sky-scrapers, toppled into the streets. Then mighty conflagrations swept entire districts. The Marounminehi in Tokio, the Orient's largest building, and the detached Imperial palace at Nhinigawa, became a prey to the flames. Burning bridges across the Tokio Canal prevented thousands escaping from the flaming areas Military firemen and police joined in the fight against the flames, but the confusion is terrific. The Korea Maru heard nothing of the fate of the British or American Embassies.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 4 September 1923, Page 7
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