JAPAN: New Alarm

At half past eleven o'clock in the morning, when many were busy erecting a new Tokyo on the debris of the old Tokyo, ruined by the great September earthquake (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.), the Imperial city was shaken by another sharp quake which lasted eleven minutes. No damage was done, but many people were thoroughly frightened and some left the city.

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