IN BATH WHEN CTIY CRUMPLED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17177, 22 October 1923, Page 7

IN BATH WHEN CTIY CRUMPLED.

MRS HAWKE’S EXPERIENCE. Association -roprrisrht Australian and N.Z. C’able Association. (Received October '22, I ] 40 a m ) THURSDAY ISLAND. October 21. The Arafura has arrived with Mrs Hawke and her son among the passengeis. * hey declined to be interviewed, the sou explaining that his mother was greatly distressed at the loss of her husband, especially since she has learned by cable, lvlyle on the ship, that ruin remamS W6re found in tlie Tokio airs Hawke was having a hath at the top of the. Grand Hotel when the first Shock came to the city. "Her husband, who was on the ground floor, was buried m the crumpled building. Mrs Hawke was deposited in the roadway still in the bath, hut unhurt. r ' 'V 15 Rttke. the parents of •T B. Hawke, the Australian Davis < up representative, were in Tokio expecting to meet their son, who was to return by way of Japan to ph»- exhibition matches there. The visit of the team was cancelled when news came- of the earthquake.