Stricken Japan

Evening Star, Issue 18533, 16 January 1924, Page 6

Stricken Japan

. ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE. TOKIO AND YOKOHAMA AFFECTED. CONSIDERABLE LOSS OF LIFE. Tress Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PEKING, January' 15. (Received January 16, at 9.15 a.m.) A radiogram from Osaka reports that six persons were killed, 200 injured, and 6-0 houses destroyed by an earthquake in Yokohama., while four people were killed and twenty injured in earthquakes which ravaged the districts in Tokio which wore 'devastated on September 1. One report estimates the total at fifty billed and 300 injured in the earthquake zone. A 'radiogram states that the Japanese Horn® Office telephoned to Osaka reporting that the damage was slight, and stating that all the Diplomatic Corps were sia.’e, and there were no casualties among ilhi' (foreign residents.—A. and N.Z. Cable. WAITING FOR NEWS. AN ANXIOUS TIME. COMMUNICATIONS CUT OFF. TOKIO, January 15. (Received January 16, at 9.30 a.m.) The extent at the damage by the earthquake is .cons i deniable, but it cannot yet be estimated. The extreme difficulty of comnuuiicaiuion increases the tear that the co unlay in the vicinity of Oda warn {forty miles south-west of Tokio) has sustained the heaviest losses. The ’quake lasted three minutes, and proved the most severe since September 1. Cable, telegraph, and train services were stopped east of Kodoh. A few small fires which started immediately after -the 'quake were quickly extinguished. The air service which is patrolling the area reports further fires. Early advices state that the power station at Kawasaki was demolished, and railroads suffered heavy damage, especially in the Chigasaki and Hiroauka regions, where dozens of trains were detailed, one rolling down an embankment into the Ugawa River. Several other trains between Gotumba and Tokio were also derailed. —A. and N.Z. Cable. AN EARLIER MESSAGE. SAN FRANCISCO, January 14. A wireless message to the Radio Corporation of Amroica from Tomioka, in Japan, says that a severe earthquake shock was felt in Tokio and the vicinity at 5 o’clock this morning. The land lines between Tomioka and Tokio were interrupted, and the tram cars were stopped in Yokohama, and on the lines between Yokohama and Tokio. It is believed that the damage is not serious.—A. and N.Z, Cable.