The naval planes which were
damage in the. devastated. areas gent ig survey? the extent of have been competed fo. return owing to the fact that " snowstorm and™ blizzard ave raging over northeastern Japan and off the coast, five destroyers, with medical "supplies and provisions, te now standing off the east.
According to the. Tokyo Central Weather Station, the earthquake be-sean at 2332 a.m, and ite centre was of Kinkwzan in Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan. - The seismograph Yegistered "A Maximum width Forty kilometres, fairly" low in me tensity and moderate in character as far as Tokyo was concerned, material damage was believed have been sustained by. the up pant from an extremely' unpleasant shock, bat damage in the north, ex: pecially in Fukuoka, Iwate and Miyagl rretectaver, in beloved to be Central Meteorological Observatory here made the following announerment' this morning 9.800 According to reports from the weather station at Morioko, the; damages so far ascertained ate, on the Kisennuma coast, 1,000 houses inundated and 25 persons killed; on the, Kamaishi const, 1,000 houses inundated; and on the Miyako: Hawa oust, 600 houses flooded.
The Ixhimaki Station reports that the tidal waves which struck the coast from Kinkazan in Miyagi Prefecture to Kisonnuma were from. four to seven f; height, second tidal wave Which ap: peared on the eastern sea-coust of Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori, caused further' serious damage. When the tide fell back, refugees, amid excessive cold (the thermometer registering seven degrees below zero), yo turned to the spots where their homes once stood and commenced verite for "whatever effects te: the. fire, which started in 'Kamaishi city as a result of the first tremors, died down at 8.30 an. after wiping out more than 600 uses Hatinohe and Shichinohe, const towns in Aomori prefecture, were visited by ten consecutive' tidal waves 15 ft, high, between 3.30 and 90 am. Some from Hatinohe harbour.
Troops To The Rescue Troops were mobilised for rescue work and. rushed to the scene of isa ser, with neceany materials onastuits and blanketes for first tidy including medicines,
the Tokyo War Office has remitted ¥. 10.000 as a tund' for ose of to families ili the aected dea, of troops who are serving possibly more, as the figures so far issued are admittedly incomplete owing to the disruption 'Apart from the dead, Iwate' ro-Jperts 696 missing and_376 injured, while Migayi reports 277 missing and 25 injured.
The two villages of Taro and i, in Twale Prefecture, have victually wiped out of exist Jenee, with the dead numbering 477 and '270, respectively.
Harrowing scenes -are-_ reported jtoxday from the quake-stricken dis: {tricts' on the north-east coast JJapan, where tens of ° thousands, rendered homeless by, the spent a miserable night open, or in rickety shelters revised from. the wreckage left the receding waves. after-shocks, combined ice, are
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while grim scenes are witnessed as, men. and. wame Fraces of their children ano other, relatives, or fearfully attempt identify the corpses washed ash Improvised hospitals and relief stations have been effected at vari-feus points, and are working des-rately to relieve the suffering.
th military and civilians, are cooperating in rendering assistance.
Over twenty villages of Iwate prefecture are reported - to have jen wiped out completely.—Reuter.
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