Evening star., 1923-11-11

eIal as to what might be suitable
me Pecos, en- route to Manila. was
or lumber, with nails, saws, hammers
AM and other tools, were in another line
Ihe Black Hawk alone brought $50
tons of rice, 125 tons of beans and
assortment ran from fifteen auto
trucks to balls of twine.
Hours after the first of the ships
mad been underway and the compli-
Gated aztec purchasing machinery had
started, stripping Hankow. Chefoo,
Islngtao, Shanghai and Manila of
availaole supplies. a cable arrived
Monday morning from Theodore
roosevelt, assistant secretary of the
Navy, instructing Admiral Anderson
to send ships to Yokohama and rem
der all possible assistance.
First Foreign Ship There.
The destroyer Stewart was in radio
communication with Toxic at 1:20
pm. Tuesday. delivering the offer of
! assistance from the approaching fleet
The Stewart reached Yokohama at
.S:20 am. Wednesday, September S,
having steamed 1.190 miles in sixty
four hours and fifty minutes. since
| the first rumor of disaster had been
received in Dairen Sunday. The
Stewart was the first foreign war ves-
sci to arrive. The remainder OF the
SSth Division, except two deStroyers
left at Nagasaki and Kobe, anchored
in Yokohama at 4:25 pm, a few
hours behind the British cruiser Des-
patch.
With the American radio station at
Shanghai and destroyers in Toxic.
| Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki and
Dairen, radio communication was es-
tablished. a necessity, as the Japanese
communications were heavily over
crowded 1t enabled the Japanese
government to communicate with
Dairen and handled all the messages
of the American State, Navy and war
departments with the outside world
in addition to hundreds of CONNER
cial and press messages. Consui pal
Fifty minutes after Capt. G. s. Lin.
coin, squadron commander, arrived on
the destroyer Tracy, conferepce mao
been held and the destroyer Nhlpple
was steaming for Toxic with sup
stranded in the capital. 1t was the
first foreign war vessel to enter To-
kio harbor in seventy years. AT 1
am. that night the Barker felt her
way out of the darkened bay, going
as far as Odawara that day and re-
turning with ffty-two refugees.
The Whipple's first trip brought
eighty-five from Toxic, mostly women
and children. The Smith Thompson
started around the peninsula at day
ten of them stretcher cases, from
Kamakura, Zushi and Hiyama. A
Japanese destroyer had brought in
foreigners from the same coast the
previous day, enabling those who so
desired to catch the President Jeffer-
son for the United States. A few days
later the John d. Ewards took sup
plies and picked up the last marooned
foreigners desiring to leave, as far
south as ShimidZu.
AS soon as the Huron anchored off
what had been Yokohama, on Fri
day noon, a staff officer was sent
ashore to find the Japanese authori-
ties. He located Capt. Y. Torisaki,
commander of the Japanese naval
forces ashore, and informed him that
the fleet had supplies aboard and
asked what disposal he wished made
of them. Capt. Torisaki was Some
what nonplussed. Suddenly he real
not coming to interfere, but to assist.
This is important" he said. I'VE
will go and see the governor"
Oner Gladly Accepted.
Gov. A. Yasukochi Of Kanagawa
fact that the supplies were being
placed entirely at their disposal He
declared that they were both needed
and welcome. The next morning the
American bluejackets started trans
ferring those aboard the Huron to the
shore Admiral Anderson went to
Toxic to confer with Ambassador
in the Imperial Hotel. More tons of
food and clothing were transferred to
the French liner Andre Lebon, and
clothing to the Canadian liner En-
press of Australia, both of which
were in the harbor and caring for
hundreds of refugees.
7. The plight of foreigners in the