Sept. 7.
Long editorials continue to he a feature of all the London newspapers, filled with horror at the catastrophe, searching for precedents, extolling the traditional Japanese courage andi fortitude, and not doubting that their astonishing capacity to rise superior to every obstacle will again be demonstrated in the present crisis.
The "Daily. Telegraph' concludes its efforts to stimulate subscriptions to relief funds by remarking that the nations of the world cannot stop short at immediate relief. They must combine as a world family in the subsequent task of helping Japan to recover from' the effects of the present visitation, confident that the present evil will bring the nations together in the common task of helping a young, brave and vigorous "nation to recover from a blow dealt by outrageous fortune.
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