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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1946
Page
8
Telegraphed reports describe Kainan on the Wakayama Peninsula as a coastal town hit by a cascading tidal surge. Six waves struck from 4:20 to 8:20 a.m. with homes smashed, residents frantically seeking relatives, and debris washing through Shimada and nearby Kochi.
A massive offshore earthquake triggered a Pacific wide tremor and a 7 to 10 foot tidal wave along Shikoku and South Central Honshu. Japanese scientists measured it heavier than the 1923 Tokyo-Yokohama quake, with seismographs showing global interference. Reverend Joseph J. Lynch of Fordham University is shown with his seismograph recording.
As dawn revealed extensive tsunami devastation along Shikoku and Kochi provinces, thousands of homes were washed away or crushed. In Osaki and nearby cities, 21 died on the water front. British casualties included an unidentified soldier missing in Hiroshima Prefecture.
Reports from Japan’s Home Minister Seiichi Omura describe authorities battling shattered communications and transport to aid the homeless as sub freezing conditions worsen. A powerful quake at 4 20 A M toppled homes across dozens of cities followed by a 300 mile green tidal surge over Shikoku Kochi and Tokushima. Fatalities include 51 buried in Kochi City with widespread flooding recoils and fires in Shingu.
A major quake hit Honshu at 6 29 55 A M E S T with magnitude 7 75 and a wave up to seven to ten feet flooding shores and inland areas. Reports from Osaka Kyoto Nara Wakayama and Awaji Island describe wrecked bridges dozens of ships washed inland and towns flooded up to second story levels as emergency supplies were considered by authorities.
In Rome a clash over anticlerical weeklies leads to a cardinal backed appeal to the government to curb publications. Ruggero Maccari, editor of the anti Catholic weekly Pollo, faces trial Monday on obscenity and insult charges, as authorities move against another satirical critic.
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