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Southward from Tokyo to the sea, railway tracks writhed and telegraph poles came reeling down as the earth crust moved and slithered. With all communications cut, soaring airplanes could only report that at Osaka, second largest city of Japan, fires had broken out, and that Kobe, third city, biggest port, was in confusion. Reputedly, the Amarubes Bridge, longest railway bridge in the Far East, had shaken down...
Shortly afterwards, Leys and Plumer returned to Seattle, where they separated. The former became a seaman on the "Bay State" bound for Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, and Hongkong. It was at the last port that he went ashore, lured by the prospect of work because of the shipping strike which had just set in and which later became a serious boycott. Leys worked with coolies, attained the dignity of winch-driver, and later made out to the ships daily to cargo with his gang of riff-raff and strike-breakers, returning at night under a pelter of stones from the strikers...
...President Cleveland last week reached San Francisco from Kobe, Japan, bringing six young men and their explanations why they were obliged to resign from the Floating University aboard the S. S. Ryndam, bound around the world (TIME, Sept. 27). They had, they admitted, rushed the guards at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, in their eagerness to see the unoccupied royal suite, held sacred to the Mikado and his family or visiting royalty. They had burst the imperial doors off their imperial hinges, sat on imperial chairs, lounged on imperial lounges. They had stormed a Buddhist temple, torn down an image, encountered...
...Minister of Marine, speaking before 1,000 notables gathered to watch the launching of the cruiser Kinugasa last week at Kobe, spoke with feeling of great Admiral Togo, now 78, who lay at that moment ill-and perhaps dying- in the modest house which he occupies in a suburb of Tokyo. The fleet has been built up by men like Admiral Togo, samurai ("military nobles") who went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations...
...second day of the flood? worst in eight years?all traffic was suspended. There were no trains to Kobe or Yokohama. Uncountable thousands were homeless. Deaths were reported. Reservists were called out to guard the bridges. It rained...