OBE at the moment is a chaotic mess and, as far as I cou judge, the figure of 100 million yen is a conservati estimate of the loss sustained," said an officer of the Blue Funne Line s. Ajax to a representative of the "North-China Daily News yesterday afternoon. The Ajax, a fast motor vessel, arrived. Shanghai yesterday from Yokohama and Kobe and, apart fri a few. small Japanese "coasters," is the first ship to reach might be termed the outside world since Tuesday's disastrous floods Officers and members of the crew were not very talkative, however, but explained that this was due to a desire not to mislead; what had happened had happened so swiftly and.om such gigantic proportions that no one carried away more a vague but none the less horrifying picture of a city laid waste.
The Ajax was forced to sail with less than half her cargo, She hai barely started to load cargo when the Storm hit Kobe and the lighters had to be taken away to a safer spot in the harbour. On Wednesday, when the rain and winds had diol away, most of the cargó was under water and the Ajax sailed for Shanghai with barely 800 tons of Kobe cargo in her hold. l day Monday, as for several deys previously, the rain came down in torrents, members of the ships' crew told the "North-China Daily News," but Kobe carried on quietly, grumbling slightly at the rain and partial flooding but with no inkling. of the disaster that was brooding over the city in the hills just behind the residential. section.
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