SAD DAYS IN JAPAN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17159, 1 October 1923, Page 10

SAD DAYS IN JAPAN.

MOVING CHARRED REMAINS By Telcgrraph—Pres* Association —Copyright Reuter's Telegrams. TOKIO, September 20. Trains are now running between here and Yokohama, but the stations are mere masses of old junk, masonry and Soldiers have cleared the debris from most of the main streets of the city, but a visitor lias the utmost difficulty in trying to locate former well-known sites, which are now well-nigh undiscoverable. Tram cars, in which the roasted bodies of passengers remained for days, have been cleared away, but the labour of extricating the bodies from the wreckage continues. This task is a nightmare for spectators. owing to the difficulty, or impossibility. of showing anv sign of which are dragged together with instruments resembling butchers’ hooks. They are then carried, in rough litters, to the charnel house, where they are burned in heaps by means of oil flames. Meanwhile, bereaved survivors continue to seek for the remains of relatives. Sometimes their distracted devotion goes the length of formally burying a discovered bone or limb, hoping that it may belong to the vanished beloved. The Japanese continue, nevertheless, to show superb concerted will to effect recovery despite the surrounding woe and misery.