Holiday-seekers in. the vaylous health resorts beyond the big cities had a terrible time, though their experiences were mostly of the same order. At Dzushi there were about 150 foreigners staying there, and fortunately all escaped with their lives. From there to Yokohama the whole face of the country had changed. Where there had been quite passably good roads there was nothing but great boulders and sharp-pointed broken rock. Hills and valleys had disappeared in places and new ones had appeared in others. In parts many people came across spouts of poisonous gas coming out of the ground and in others swirls of a noxious mud.
Mr. Whittaker, of the Monotype Company, told of leading a party of 25, including his wife and several other ladies, 25 miles across country until they got to Mishima. The whole landscape, he said, had been altered and it was impossible at any time, however well one knew the country, to say whether the right direction was being followed. The earthquake appears to have covered a radius of about 60 miles. No confirmation could be gathered from the Yokohama people of the tidal wave which it has been said followed the earthquake there, though they had heard rumours of one having struck another part of the coast.
There was one lady on the Canada who had been 54 hours without sleep. She: had been wandering about around Yokohama, unable to get hor bearings. A lady in Yokohama who was out in the city when the earthquake came promptly went back to the hotel where she had been living, only to find it in ruins. There was a little baby there all alone. Another lady joined her and, deciding it would be safer in the Kamakura hills, they set off with the baby to walk there. They did not reach their objective, but stayed in a Japanese betise 10 miles out from the ruined city for the night, and the next day they walked back again. All efforts to find the baby's mother have fail-_and it was brought to Shang-Many other people set out for Kamakura and there are dark rumours going about, for very few of them have been heard of since. It is said that there was much looting and murder in that quarter and fears are expressed for the safety of these people. Even in Yokohama there was much disorder and refugee residents insist that at least two foreigns were stabbed to death. __Mrs. Peyton Griffin's case is illustrative of the conditions 2f most of the refugees.. She has had to come to Shanghai with
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