Seven thousand, eight hundred houses were destroyed, but as they were all small wooden houses the Tosses are estimated not to exceed Yen. 10,000,000, which sum is. me Jare vigorously aiding those injured, [They are clearing the debris, making roads and constructing barracks and their efforts are exciting great ad" miration. Civilians Ukowise, repairing the telegraphs, arriving steadily—Reuter. fand railways. Supplies are Imperial Gifts Tokyo, Mar, 10, The Emperor anid Empress have donated Yen 50,000 to the sufferers from the earthquake in the Kyoto Prefecture and Yen 1,000 to those in the Osaka Prefecture.
All Tokyo school children arg subscribing a sen each to the relief fund.
Rainstorm and Flood According to reports "from ithe Jquake-stricken districts, the rain" storm has resulted in rivers overs flowing and sweeping. away several houses, which escaped the earth quake," at "Toyooka.
At Amino, where the earthquake destroyed several factories, parents Jand relatives are arriving from, vane ous places and frantically searching amidst the ruins, where many bodies lof factory girls are buried—Reuter, American Aid Washington, BMar.9, President Coolidge has requested.
American Red: Cross to offer sits to Japan in connexion with the Miraculous Escape of Small Girt Osaka, Mar, 10, The Osaka "Asahi" and the Ondkat "Biainiehi" give much prominence'to despatches from London reporting sympathetic editorial articles and ithe starting of a "Save the Children" Fund. The newspapers express their Jdeep appreciation.
Among the hundreds and hundreds lof stories of the quake, virtually all of which are more than pitiful, one, however, tells of the saving of a four-year old girl who was caught under a falling wall, at the first
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