AFTER THE GREAT DISASTER.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 21 September 1923, Page 7

AFTER THE GREAT DISASTER.

Scenes of Desolation -nd Destruction.

STORIES OF GRIM TRAGEDIES.

BY CABLE—PRESS aSSN.—COPYRIGHT ' (Received 9.30 p.m., September 20.) SHANGHAI, September 19.

Reuter’s correspondent re-visited Yokohama and 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 cf ten Britishers killed, the little black crosses bearing their names. The search parties tell pitiful stories. One woman asked a clergyman to bury her husband. He inquired 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. His servants presented him with the incinerated remains in a bowl. A son and daughter in law of Mr J. P. Mollidon were pinned near the stairs of the house. They talked to each other till the fire consumed them. Mr Eastman, a wellknown resident of 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 that the question of rebuilding Yokohama will the reconstruction in the scheme for tlie reconstruction of Tokio, provision is made for making Tokio a great port, which, those in a position to know say is quite possible by dredging a passage up to the .Sliubura. •It is-officially announced that the Imperial wedding has been postponed. It. is understood that it will he celebrated early next year. Baron Ijuin lias been appointed Foreign Minister. ■