JAPAN'S SHAKEN CITIES
(N THE HOUR OF DISASTER
SOME STORIES OF SURVIVORS.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGHT.) (Sydney Sun Cable.) (Received 14th September, 9 a.m.) .OSAKA, 13th September. Mr. Cox, of Adelaide, one of the refugees, tells a sensational story of how, when the earthquake started, he jumped from an opeu window of the house. Tw» others iri the House were killed. One of them, Juel Ivladsen, was a Danish artist on the staff of the London "draphic."
Whon the earthquake started, the sea receded, baring it.-i bottom for' half a mile. Then it re-turned in. a roaring wave 25 feet high. Five hundred feat !of cliff toppled on the heads of tho people. lie saw fishing boats, houses, land hundreds of\peopie, merrymaking'a | few minutes before, swept out to sea. I the jatest report is that 84,000 dead" bodies have been recovered in Tbkio and some of the most densely-occupied seciiip&i are still Unexplored. Survivors tell .stories of people trapped in crumbling" : huildinga and singing folk songs' of Japan while they unflinchingly awaited cerjtain death. The casualties in cinemas were' especially heavy. :
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1923, Page 7
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