SCENES LIKE HELL

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 4 September 1923, Page 7

SCENES LIKE HELL

IN TOKIO AND YOKOHAMA,

VANCOUVER, 2nd September. At Yokohama the fire started in the Bund, spreading to Aizaki and Bonton streets, demolishing business districts. The Tokio central railway station remains intact, but lofty buildings opposite were burned. The chief telephone and telegraph offices were destroyed by fire. In • some suburbs hardly a' single structure is left standing. The British crtfuer Despatch has arrived, and is directing rescue operations. A wjrtleee

operator describes Tokio and Yokohama to be like a hell, with buildings falling and dead and dying on all sides. The fate of many small ships in Yokohama Harbour is unknown. NEW YORK, 2nd September. The Radio Corporation has received a wireless message stating that Ihe Japanese city of Nagoya was destroyed and the population of 600,000 is believed to be dead. SHANGHAI, 2nd September. Hundreds of foreigners were holidaysmaUing in Hakone district, where the force of the earthquake shocks is believed to have been most severe, amd fears are entertained for their safety. A naval radio message received from Funahaishi says the Japanese Navy Department is not answering radio calls, and it is feared the enth'e Department has been destroyed. A British Jight-cruiser, which has been dispatched, is the only foreign war yes- ; sel said to be en route to Yokohama. I It is reported that the Premier, Count I Yamamoto, and one of the young ImI perial Princes had a. narrow escape, ths | latter taking refuge in a bamboo patch. ! The countryside for fifty miles about Tokio has been laid waste. Heips of dead fill tha streets of the desolated I towns;