JAPANESE DISASTER.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 5 September 1923, Page 2

JAPANESE DISASTER.

l-BB WIESS ASSOCIATION- -COCIIIIGUT SHANGHAI, September 3. Two new earthquakes occurred at Tokio to-day and crazed the jieople. The population is fleeing from the city, choking all the roads. SHANGHAI, September A wireless from Osaka reports that tlie Italian and French uere destroyed. The Minister for the Navy estiiuawj the fatalities at Tokio alone at 150.0W.1 It is reported that Viscount. Takj.l luishi and twenty other principal iuiib-I bers of the Seiyukai were killed whifel engaged in a conference on Saturday. I About forty foreigners also perished ini Hakone. A report from Nagaski states :ha*l Prince Matsuka died as the result of I injuries received in the earthquake. I SHANGHAI, September 1 I . Reports state that the destructictl in Tokio is so complete that it i., jws-l sible that the National Capital marl be temporarily transferred to Kvoul or Osaka. I The Prince Regent ordered tbel Palaces to be thrown open for tbal refugees. | The King of England cabled to thl Emperor expressing horror and pro.] found sympathy in the appalling di>-| aster. I SYDNEY, September 4. I Dr. Oinori, one of the Japanese] scientists at the Congress, states, alter] consideration of the casualty figures of] the 18.ro earthquake, the preaent] figures of the casualties are greatly] exaggerated. I SHANGHAI, Sept. 3. I A Japanese naval wireless report] that the Navy Department buikiinp] are safe at Nagasaki. | A wireless from Korea maru soj*B that all the. lighthouses in the Bay oil Tokio have been rendered useless ail night time and navigation is dangeromß Japanese advices state that nunyß warships strew the shore in the vicinit™ of Yokohama, driven from their cborage by the tidal wave. The ma-0 ;or:tv of the large steamers escaped idfl standing out to sea before the wor-tB rame. I Much plundering and looting is I*B ported in the stricken districts I It i-, :eported that 8000 people I 'iraed ,n a military compound il® ! i, or wiu-i ' they were taking refutfO li--.' t'a .■ ithquake. In other pla<*>B owing to th.- destruction of bridges and! canals preventing escape, thousands otß people were trapped in the blazinjß areas, aud perished. I Aiany leaped into the water and rowned. ] file -United States Government ■uniinonvd the Japanese Ambassador conier regarding relief plans. I