TERRIBLE FIRE IN JAPAN.
GABLE NEWS.
RAGES FOR A DAY. GREAT-DAMAGE AND LOSE OF LIFE. '■(. / —— l —' /.;/' ' :A ’ . United Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, August 1. Reuter’s correspondent states that a fire raged in Osaka throughout yesterday- -• Thousands of buildings were ruined. The world-famed Buddist temple was destroyed. Many persons perished.
[Osaka is an important city of central. Japan, situated at the head of the gulf of the same name, and at the mouth of the Yodo River, which issues from Lake Biwa. Its fine castle, the stones of whose walls are of astonishing size, was constructed in 1583, and the palace, built in its precincts and destroyed in 1868, was perhaps tho most magnificent structure in Japan. Intersected with canals, Osaka is the commercial centre of the empire, and the headquarters of the rice and tea trade.'}
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2570, 3 August 1909, Page 5
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135TERRIBLE FIRE IN JAPAN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2570, 3 August 1909, Page 5
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