The reassuring news was brought by the officers of the Blue Funnel str. Lycaon, which reached Shanghai yesterday, that Vries Island has not vanished beneath the sea, as at first reported. The master of the Lycaon, who has been a navigator in Chinese and Japanese waters for many years, stated emphatically that the island, which is 20 miles long and thickly populated, is "still there." A well-known lighthouse on its shore was visible from the decks of the Lycaon, and observed to be tilted through the shock of the earthquake.
The str. Lycaon, whose stern was damaged, in Yokohama Har-hour on the fatal -Saturday landed at Kobe 119 survivors, including 21 Europeans and Americans, 34 Japanese, 18 Chinese and 46 Indians. Numerous
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