Kobe, Sept. 9.
The town is crowded with refugees from the earthquake area.
Mr. Louis Jederkfn, agent for Swiss watches, relates ai typical experience in Yokohama. "I was just entering my office in the centre of the foreign settlement at noon, when: the building began to sway. I stood in the doorway, which I considered the. safest place. Eight others were there. Then came an awful shock.- We fell, but got up again. The building, which is a Japanese structure, did! not fall. We went out Houses were down all around us. I rushed off to find my wita who had been shopping. I had to walk over collapsed roofs in choking dust. Thousands were doing the same, searching for their re
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