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Show HEROIC JAPANESE IN SAKURA-JIMA. SAKURA-JIMA. Among the rescued from the terrible vocanlc dlea-Rtpr on the island of Sakura-.Tima were a schoolmaster with a portrait of the emperor carried from his school; the village policeman police-man with records of the station house, and the postal clerk with a bag of mail. The staff of the Kago slima observatory' remained at their posts in imminent danger, calmly recording re-cording the earthquake shocks. The foregoing Is a brief statement of some of the incidents of the calamity ca-lamity which befell one of the islands of the Japanese group, when lava poured over the surface, ashes fell and suffocating poisonous gases fill ed the air. We have nothing more than the faintest glimpse of the situation situ-ation and yet the horror of it seems more than human kind could endure, and yet Japanese courage and sense of duty were equal to the terrible strain. There is no more admirable example exam-ple of courageous adherence to duty than that of the schoolmaxter, the policeman and mail clerk. This faithfulness faith-fulness is characteristic of the Japanese Jap-anese and is one source of tremendous tremend-ous national strength. |