Evening star., 1923-09-06
~ New Shocks
Add to Fear
in Capital.
COASTAL TOWNS
ARE WIPED OUT
To-Day Moratorium
Expected to Save
Financial Chaos.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
THE terrible sweep of the Japa-
f1ese earthquake is being disclosed
1n direct cable and wireless dis
patches now coming from Iwaki, the
radio station connection, and from
Osaka, Nagasaki and other points
Contiguous to the devastated region.
| Yokohama has been literally en-
quilted, the area of destruction COW
ering not only the city itself, but a
zone more than hundred miles
square, including Toxic and four
other large cities. This is one of
the most densely populated sections
of Japan, with some seven million
people within the stricken area.
Toxic Dead 10000.
A direct message from the Iwaki
station, with which TOXIC has estab-
lished courier connections, says the
Japanese home office announced So
600 dead at Toxic, 100000 injured and
100000 homeless. Osaka cables that
the great port of Yokohama is totally
destroyed and that only one-fourth
of the capital city of Toxic remains
1t estimates that 20 per cent of the
fities and towns within a radius of
hundred miles of Yokohama and
Toxic are destroyed
Order has been restored in Toxic
where thousands Of homeless people
ra ny,n
'pen spaces. The government is feed
ng them scanty rations.
While the rest of the world hurries
is ships of war and commerce, deep
aden with relief supplies, to Japanese
waters, Premier Yamamoto broad
asts message to his people urg-
ng them to unite in the trying hours
through which they are passing and
ppealing to them to make a supreme
fort to relieve the suffering and
Expedite the work of reconstruction
500 Foreigners Dead.
The cables say that already orders
For building materials have been re-
feived in England, while leading con-
Ptruction engineers and architects
n New York have proffered their as
distance in making a new Japan.
Five hundred foreigners are said
10 have been killed in Yokohama. In
tluded in this number, according to
ne various reports. are the following
americans:
Capt. Macdonald of the Grand Ho-
el, MIS-: Root and son, Max d. Kir-
tasof. the American consul: Chief
pharmacist L. Zembech of the United
states Naval Hospital and his wife
ana two enlisted men. The hospital
buildings were wrecked
Other Americans reported killed
are Bess and Richard Mendell Of
Cleveland. Elizabeth Dodson of kim
ston. \ G., and w. T. Blume of the
General Electric Company. The lat
ter was stationed in Toxic.
Supplies of Rice Requisitioned.
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
empire. while engineers, working
with make-shift forces, repair the
railways to rush the food to the
starving.
Meanwhile there are no reports Of
disorder. although there is some
plundering and looting. Gen. Fukuda
Is determined to quiet the population
of the capital as quickly as possible
IN order that martial law may be
revoked.
The organization of relief work
throughout the rest Of the world pro-
ceeds rapidly. and already the United
States has been of material assist
ance. The American destroyer No.
211 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.
Shisp. Taking on Supplies.
Many other American-owned ves-
sells are either taking on cargoes of
relief supplies at Pacific coast ports
or are on their way to japan. In
san Francisco alone five Shipping
BOARD steamers are being fitted out
as relief ships.
American response to the call for
assistance has been immediate. and
From all parts of the country come
announcements of gifts in money
and kind. A group of lumber ex-
iorting mills on the Pacific coast are
Ro donate 45,000.000 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 assistance
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