Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08
BANKS MILLIONS SAVED
BY FIREPROOF VAULTS
BY CLIFFORD FOX

By FIREPROOF VAULTS
OSAKA, Sept. 6.-(By the Assoc
ciated Press.)-Al money in the
Bank of Japan vaults was saved
from destruction in the fire which
followed the earthquake and tidal
wave, it became known here today.
AMERICAN RELIEF SHIPS
ARRIVE IN JAP PORTS
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.-(RY
the Associated Press.)-The Japanese
nation, stricken by what is probably
the greatest disaster of the modern
era, turns bravely to the tremendous
tasks ahead, marshaling her shat
tered resources to succOr the hun
dreds of thousands who suffer from
injury and from hunger. and laying
her plans for the rebuilding of her
ruined cities.
While the rest Of the world hur
ries it's ships of war and commerce.
to Japanese waters, deep laden with
relief supplies, Premier Yamamoto
broadcasts a message to his people
urging them to unite in the trying
hours through which they are pass
ing and appealing to them to make
a supreme effort to relieve the suf.
fering and expedite the work of re-
constructions.
The cables say that already orders
/ for building materials have been re-
ceived in England, while leading
construction engineers and architects
in New York have proffered their
assistance in making a new Japan.
/DesOIatiOn at Yokohama
Yokohama is a city of desolation,
far more severely smitten than is
the capital, Toxic. A message re-
cived from Kobe at the state depart
ment in Washington confirms pre-
vious word that the great port of
Japan has been completely destroy
ed, with a tremendous loss of life,
including Americans. The city's
streets and canals are filled with
dead; one dispatch says that only
three or four houses have been
spared. The harbor is practically
of no value to the relief ships, for
the floor has been raised, the break
waters torn asunder, and the many
lighthouses, with only two eXcep-
tions, demolished.
Five hundred foreigners are said
to have been killed in Yokohama
Included in this number, according
to various reports, are the follow
ing Americans:
Captain Mcdonald, of the Grand
| hotel; Mrs. Root and son; Max d.
Kirjesoff, American consul; Chief
Pharmacist L. Zembech, of the
United States navy hospital, and his
wife, and two enlisted men. The
hospital buildings were wrecked.
Other Americans Killed
Other Americans reported killed
are Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bur
nett, military attache at the Afneri-
can embassy at Toxic; Bess and
Richard Mendell, OF Cleveland; Eliza
beth Dodson, of Kinston, N. c., and
w. T. Blume, of the General Elec-
trio company. The latter was sta
| toned in Toxic.
A dispatch from the Toxic CORE
| spondent of the Central News, re-
ceived in London, says that 100000
| are dead in that city; but the CORE
| spondent of the Associated Press,
in a dispatch filed on Tuesday, puts
the number of $4,000. Not less than
200 foreigners, he estimates, per-
| ished, in Yokohama.
Throughout the stricken area the
authorities are trying to meet the
| two immediate needs of the situation;
care for the wounded and food for
the hungry. Supplies of rice are be-
Ing requisitioned throughout the en-
pire, while engineers, working with
make shift forces, repair the rail-
ways to rush the food to the starv-
ing.
Meanwhile there are no reports of
disorder, although there is some
plundering and looting. General
Kukuda is determined to quiet the
| population of the capital as quickly
as possible in order that martial law
may be revoked.
American Relief Arrives
The organization of relief work
throughout the rest of the world
proceeds rapidly, and already the
United States has been of material
assistance. The American destroyer
No. 221, arrived in Kobe yesterday
with supplies, followed soon after by
the shipping board steamer City of
! Spokane, which leaves for Yokohama
today with 5000 tons of flour.
Many other American-owned YES
sells are either taking on cargOes of
! relief supplies at Pacific coast sorts
San Francisco alone five shipping
| board steamers are being fitted out
| as relief ships.
| Americas response to the call for
assistance has been immediate and
! from all parts of the country come
announcement of gifts in money and
! kind. A group of lumber exporting
| mills on the Pacific coast are to
donate 100000 feet of timber to
the japanese government.
The British China squadron has
been ordered to purchase supplies
and food and proceed to Japanese
waters to render whatever assist
| ance is needed.
CAROLINA GIRL KILLED;
WAS ON EXTENSIVE TOUR
KINSTON, N. c., Sept. 6.-Miss
Elizabeth Dodson, reported in press
dispatches received here last night
to have been killed in the Japanese
earthquake, had been travelling in
Europe, the Near East and Asia