JAP. ’QUAKE

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1923, Page 5

JAP. ’QUAKE

— BRITISH CAS UALTIES (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) SHANGHAI, September 19. A correspondent who revisited Yokohama found a scene of desolation and destruction. The buildings standing can be counted on the fingers of one hand. All are uninhabitable. No foreigners remain, except those engaged in relief work. In the tennis court of what was formerly the British Consulate were found the graves of ten Britishers who were killed, with little black crosses bearing their names. Search parties tell pitiful stories. One woman asked a clergyman to bury her husband. He enquired for the body, and she handed him a handkerchief containing a heap of ashes—all that remained. Dr Kingston, of the British Hospital, returned to search for the body of his wife. The servants presented him with the incinerated remains in a

bowl. The son and daughter-in-law of Mr J. P. Mollidon were pinned under the stairs of the house. 'They talked to each other till the fire consumed them. Mr Eastman, a well-known resident of the Bluff district, was found on the third day after the fire in a dog kennel, where he had crawled with an injured leg. The correspondent adds: “The question of rebuilding Yokohama will depend on whether, i'n' the scheme f r the reconstruction of Tokio, provision is made for making Tokio a great port, which those in a position io know sav is quite possible, by dredging a passage up to the Shibura. ROYAL WEDDING POSTPONED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) TOKIO, September 19. It is officially announced that the Imperial wedding has been postponed. It is understood that it will bo celebrated earlv next year.