Mess is unrecognizable. The Jamieson house has been wrecked and the Foggitts have had the bottom of their house filled with sand. Water was still pouring through yesterday. Mrs. O. Skinner had a narrow escape in this district, the Skinner house being wrecked; the garden of the Hancock house has vanished, the house now. occupying the edge of a small cliff. The bank of the Jeidiken house was washed on to the kitchen of the Lumley residence, part of the house being buried under several feet of earth. The child of Mr. Lumley's chauffeur was buried and is presumed to have been killed. The main part of the house is damaged.
At Ichinotani a pine tree crashed clean through the house of Mr. and Mrs, H. Wohlers. In the Fukiai-ku district other foreigners were washed out of their houses, a total of 20 houses occupied by foreigners being wrecked.
'A group of new houses at Aotani, all occupied by foreigners, whose names we are unable to verify—the' group nearest Mr. Dabah's residence—was completely washed away., Mr. Dabah's residence ig still standing but on the edge of a cliff.
Near Rokko, the house of Mr, de Voogd, of the Netherlands Consulate has the ground floor full of sand and the next door house, Mr. B. J.
—Reuter.
Hopes for 1948 Tokyo, July 14.
Mr. Michimasa Soyeshima, a member of the International Olympic Committee, said the action was tantamount to cancellation of the Olympiad although a formal notice' of abandonment of the games has not-been made, "We regret the action," he said, "but apparently it was inevitable, We hope we can hold the games in Tokyo in 1948."
Indications that the Olympic Games fight not be held in 1940 were evident several days+ago when public groups pointed out that the necessary expenditure was too heavy for a time of national emergency: It was also reported that several essential materials for the construction of buildings would not be granted the Olympic Committee because of the greater need for them elsewhere. The reports intimated that steel required for buildings would be used in the cons struction of war materials instead, Sports circles predicted that Finland might act as hosts to the next Olympics because construction of grounds was already underway there.—United Press,
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