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Show Japs Bury Dead, Clean Up tHuins Kallscher said an L S T manned by a Japanese crew left Nagoya Monday loaded with 20,000 U. a Army blankets or victims in sea and fire swept Shingu. He reported report-ed also that a Japanese Red Cross ship bearing American Red Cross Representative Richard Day had not been heard from since sailing from Osaka Sunday, .but added that no immediate anxiety was felt over the ship's safety In view of communications difficulties. United Press Correspondent Leslie Nakashima reported from Takamatsu, worst hit city of Shikoku island, that the Island's death toll was believed to have reached 728, with 974 Injured and 70 missing. By MILES W. VAUGHN TOKYO, Dec. 23 (UP) Homeless Home-less survivors of the Japanese earthquake and tidal wave, estimated esti-mated unofficially as high as 600,-000, 600,-000, were cheered by warmer, sunny weather Monday as they buried their dead and began clearing clear-ing the ruins. U. S. Army spokesmen said the situation wss "well under control." con-trol." American reports from Okyama prefecture, where British Brit-ish units are stationed, showed conditions "well in hand for the present with no outside help needed. . ' Rescue Difficult Japanese snd allied rescue teams met great difficulties ss they struggled to reach the center cen-ter of the stricken area. Refugees cluttered the roads. Disrupted communications delayed casualty reports and calls for help. Death toll reports from Shikoku and southern Honshu islands showed wide discrepancies, fht latest United Press tabulation, complied In close collaboration with American, British and Japanese Japa-nese agencies, listed 969 persons known dead, 1431 Injured and 83 missing. A supreme headquarters announcement an-nouncement placed the death toll for 15 prefectures at 681, with 575 persons injured and 266 missing. miss-ing. The United Press tabulation listed some areas not included In the Army's announcement , Second hi Century The headquarters report listed 7420 homes destroyed and 26.469 damaged in the sections ravaged by Japan's second major quake disaster of the century. Japanese home office officials reported 5547 buildings demolished demol-ished beyond repair and 14,000 more less seriously damaged. This source said 2335 of the destroyed buildings had been washed away by the tidal wave. The waters swept away or wrecked 2195 ships. ' 4 All reports agreed that there were apparently no casualties among American occupation forces. United Press Correspondent Peter Kallscher, covering the devastated dev-astated Wakayama area of southern south-ern Honshu, reported that Maj. Gen. Charles Mulllns and all American 25th division personnel were believed safe. Col. J. D. Vanderpoul, Wetum-ka, Wetum-ka, Okla., made a forced landing at Shingu when his reconnaissance reconnais-sance plane ran out of gas. He reported that he hsd found four Army counterintelligence men safe The four men were believed to be those previously reported marooned ma-rooned and unheard from In the stricken peninsula ctfy. Believed Safe Two air corps men who were sighted from the air at Kushi-moto, Kushi-moto, on the southern tip of Wakayama peninsula, wsre not found when a crash host arrived to evacuate them. They were believed be-lieved to have made their way to safety. Kallscher reported that funeral processions lined the roads In the Wakayama area. Bereaved Japanese Japa-nese in mourning kimonos carried their dead In coffins on crude, hastily built platforms. Priests snd flower bearers led the processions. proces-sions. Many Japanese were at work repairing their damaged homes and and clearing paths through the littered streets for the processions pro-cessions of mourners. There was no confirmation of a report that a boat carrying 40 American military personnel had capsized between Osaka and Wakayama. |
