Public School, who left Karuizawa on the 12th instant and has just arrived in Shanghai, speaks very well of Japanese kindness towards refugees. Incidentally, to the second class, at the Government's expense.
rived here by the M.M.S. Andre Among the Passengers who ar-Lebon was Mr. J. Larioff, manager of the Russo-Asiatic Bank, Yokohama, with Mrs. Larioff. The bank building, erected two years ago, withstood the earthquake without damage and all the books and documents in the office were removed to the strong-room and safely locked up. The fires which started all round shortly: after caused the burning of the window frames, floors and furniture, but a later inspection after the fire had burned out showed that the conerete walls, floors and roof were intact and that the vault had stood perfectly both the' earthquake and the conflagration.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.