A young Tokyo girl, who was taking the waters at Kinosaki spa with her mother and who was one lof the fortunate few to escape, rejeounting "her experiences, " declared thet she was downstairs in the inn in which they were staying, while her mother was in the garden, when the shock came. the house pitched like a ship," she said, "op, down, side to side while the doors gave way. I my mother clinging to a tree the garden. Then the tree fell and I thought my mother was dead, as she lay on the ground and did not move. The shocks continued; they grew harder and harder; and I thought I would have to die. As it would be a pity to die in the Jordinary home slothes I was wearing, I managed to roll on the floor towards the alcove and get a kimono and obi (wide sash). I Jcould not put the kimono on," as the house was swaying too much, but I managed to wrap the new obi around me roughly, and then I lay down, said.a prayer, closed my feyes and prepared for death."
Death, however, did not come to the brave little girl. The quakes ceased for a time. Voices shouted those in the house to rush out, She acted like an automaton, she relates, but managed to get "on found that her mother was none the worse except for a severe fright the village eaten by flames; and managed to get back to Tokyo.
Help is pouring in from all parts of the country and there doubt that the whole world will manifest its sympathy with Japan a manner as wai The destroyed cit are now largely hamlets of tents. The once green forest and rice fields are scorched and black, The refugees are slowly trickling back, while the authorities are ex-editing the construction of wooden shacks in which they can live and jerry on till their homes have been reconstructed and they can return to the humble toil and occupation they have been following for generations.
Every school boy throughout the Empire asked to contribute towards aiding the distressed, even though the contribution may be a copper. Although there are some 500 Koreans. in the areas affected, no. violence, such as occurred in' Tokyo and Yokohama, has occurred. Mails are being transported by means of aeroplanes and carrier pigeons.
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