Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-07
REFUGEES ARE
TAKEN TO CHINA
Medical Supplies Needed at
Yokohama for Injured and
Victims of Disease
SHOCKS DIMINISHING
More News Coming Through
of Foreigners Who Escaped
Many Still Missing
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Although lateStS repOrIS II oii
Japan lead to the hope that the
death toll is not as large as has been
feared, the destruction wrought by
the earthquake, tidal wave and nre
has been tremendous.
4 dispatch flrom Shanghai this
morning says that information re-
oeiyed there today makes it appar-
ent that the losses, both in fire and
nroperty, were much exaggerated.
Different sources agree, however,
that two-thirds of Toxic has been
laid waste. A message from the
American consul at Shanghai to the
State Department quotes a BRUSH
cruiser at Yokohama as authority
for the statement that that city has
been virtually destroyed.
Three United States destroyers
have arrived at Yokohama and taken
aboard 800 Americans.
| SHANGHAI, Sept. (By Inc A.. A.
ISOLATED Press) Refugees from the
aearthouake at Yokohama are pro-
ceeding to Kobe, the japanese CON
sulate here is advised. Three snip,
loads of them are expected TO san
for China, arriving here propapiy
this week end. ~ =
Teleerams from Kobe urge the
synmediate dispatch Of large quailtl..
Ties of medical supplies. Inc n,ae
Red Cross unit was due TO i1ase
shanghai today Others VIII IoI,o ~
Resides these measures OIL tne D.
ish colony, the Chinese are
izine relief units. hao,
One report which has not peen
confirmed, says cholera mas
out in the port.
The Toxic home office stili esti.
mates the dead in the capltal a..
20 900. but makes no attempt "
strike a total for Yokohama, ~
MANY coast towns that were III
path of the tidal wave ana ~ .he
earthquake zone.
TI,a foreign and residential sec
+,ons in both the capital and the port
sa,,, IN have escaped the destruc-
t;on owing to their favorable loca-
ZION but the slums and the industrlal
districts suffered severely. However,
Tokio's buildings of modern con-
etruction are said to have escaped.
As America hurries supply ships
across the Pacific, the people Oh the
United States are Responding -
a,.o,,sIv 10 the appeal for help ana II
;s halieved that the $5,000,0OO Red
cross quota can be surpassed;
All missionaries of the Reforiheo
church are reported safe.
Alarm is still felt for Juose
charles Loningier of the onited
states district court for China. wnp
left Mukden for Japan, August ~.
Although it is not believed that ne
raached Yokohama before the aarth-
o,,alxe. his silence in view OIL the
1srsistent inquiries for him worries
his friends here. o..
Judge Lobingler was bound tor
yok ohama, after term OF court Ut
parbin, Manchuria. He was as,
companied by his wife, by Onitea
states District Attorney Leonard
Husar. Mrs. Husar and United states
Marshal Thurston Porter.
British Vice Consul Haigh az on
obana was killed in the earthquake
saws a. British naval wireless receV-
"a here. The wife of Surgeon COM
,nander William Kingston, who was
In charge of the Yokohama navai
bospital, also was killed, but the
remainder Of his staff and their
families escaped.
grne Swiss minister and the per-
sonnel of the legation are SAFE, me
German consul general Herr Thiel'
and his family are also reported to
have escaped.