Fifteen thousand Japanese in British Columbia keenly await word of the fate of relatives in the stricken zone. When the news of the disaster arrived all business by Japanese was suspend: ed; fishermen left their boats moored at the wharves, silk and other merchants closed their stores or warehouses, Japanese lumber workers hurried into the chief cities from the camps. The Japanese daily newspaper here put out extra editions along with the larger dailies published by the Canadians. The Japanese paper's bulletin boards were thronged by crowds of anxious people, men, women and children, who scanned the bulletins from morning till dusk and after. Mayor C. E. Tisdall received numerous requests from people near and far who wished to support a civic relief fund.
In church circles particularly anxiety was occasioned. Toronto headquarters of the- missionary societies of Canada, which include Anglicans, Presbyterians and Methodists, received in response to cabled inquiries in Japan replies which indicated that the majority of the hundreds of Canadian missionaries stationed in or near the afflicted zone had escaped the disaster through them being at the summer resorts when the blow fell.
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