Once more we have to offer to Japan our sympathy
with her under a terrible blow frozn the forces of nature. On Tuesday a typhoon swept over the island of Kyushu, on which stands the town of Nagasaki. A supposed submarine earthquake at the same time threw up a seismic wave which overwhelmed two small towns. The loss of life, though not so great as at first feared, was very heavy. Nearly six hundred people are reported as killed or missing, including a number of fishermen whose vessels were swamped. Mexico, too, has had its seismic wave, causing hundreds of deaths and many wrecks. The poor people of South Russia, harassed enough by man's inhumanity, have also suffered from an earthquake; the homes of thousands are said to have been demolished, and panic reigned last week in the Crimea.
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