NEARLY 100,000 BODIES FOUND
SCIENTISTS’ DEkTHfc. (Sun Cable.) OSAKA, September 10. The bodies picked up in Yokohama to noon of the 7th total 23000 and in Tokio to the 9th 65,000. Daniel Langford the world’s lead ing collector of marine shells and professor in Kem university is among the dead in Yokohama. Thirteen |of thd • JJxteen telephone exchanges in Tokio were destroyed. There is liittjlei .tending towards profiteering, since the Government issued a stern notification that the price of most commodities should remain unchanged. The latest police report states that the buildings destroyed in Tokio total 410,000. The people affected aira '1,547,000 whle 393,000 'persons are "taking refuge in schools, temples and parks and 292,000 in other people’s houses. It is estimated that it will take 30 years to reconstruct Tokio and in consequence many Japanese and the majority of foreign firms are planning to moce to Osaka and Kobe. The same applies to Yokohama. z
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 159223, 12 September 1923, Page 4
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