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News of the disaster did not reach Kobe, where Mr. Squier was staying, until Monday. Within three hours, the American and English business men in the city had raised $50,000. The West o' Rowa, an American ship, was unloaded and reloaded with supplies for the refugees in eighteen hours. It was the first relief to reach Yokohama, where thousands of refugees were rescued. These people, mostly Chinese, had lived more than four days without food or water, suffering all the while indescribable physical torment from their wounds. In an attempt to allay in some measure the pain, they bathed...
...American Red Cross began a relief fund for the Japanese with a contribution of $100,000. Six American destroyers of the Asiatic Fleet were despatched to the devastated region with food and clothing, and Admiral Anderson offered the services of the entire Asiatic Fleet. The American Consul at Kobe sent the Shipping. Board Steamer West Orowa to Yokohama with relief supplies. Offers of relief came from all parts of the world...
Representations were recently made by Gisaku Takigawa, President of the Kobe Chamber of Commerce, to the Government in Tokyo, asking for the resumption of trade relations as means of improving Japanese commerce. For this step Takigawa has been suspected of Bolshevik sympathy, and, it is reported, he was put under police surveillance...
...Checking New Englanders Round the World" headlines the Boston Evening Transcript over an entire page-"Our Modern Pilgrims and Where They Are Today." Then follow great lists of Bostonians and New Englanders-"Leaving Kobe, Japan, tonight for Nagasaki": So-and-so and So-and-so and So-and-so; "At sea between Algiers and Monaco": So-and-so; " Now on the Nile...
...does not exceed $150. When the course is completed the men will be detailed to such positions in the foreign branches of the National City Bank as may be available. The branches are situated in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Santos, Valparaiso, Havana, Hong Kong, Kobe, Panama, Genoa, Petrograd and London. It must be remembered by prospective candidates that their services are primarily at the disposal of the bank when the course is completed, and no selection of post can be promised...