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Dr. Omomura, cheerful scientist of the Nugata Meteorological Observatory, considered next to Dr. Omori the greatest expert on the origin of earthquakes, told the Japanese that another great and destructive shock will visit Northwestern Japan "within 20 years." "The deplorable fact is," he continued, "that in the present state of seismological developments there is no foretelling the exact date the visitation will come."

U. S. Ambassador Cyrus E. Woods, in the United States on a visit from Japan, said that stories of massacre and torture of Koreans by Japanese (TIME, Dec. 3) are "hysterical and generally untrue." "During the wild excitement," he said, "there is no doubt that a number of Koreans found engaged in looting the dead were killed, but they were only meted out the same punishment as Japanese offenders. After having found so many of the sensational yarns to be absolutely without foundation in fact, I should hesitate to believe any of them without substantial proof."

The Japanese Government proposed to send the battleship Kiso or the Isuzu around the world to express gratitude to foreign nations for their aid to Japan during and after the earthquake. Admiral Uriu, an Annapolis graduate, is likely to command the ship.