BLAZE IN TOKIO.
WOODEN BUILDING DESTROYED. LARGE NUMBER OF DEATHS. TOKIO, Dec. 23. A large wooden building in a congested quarter of Tokio, bousing fiftyfour families of labourers, was burnt before dawn to-day. Thirty persons are missing and are believed to have been burijt. Besides adults fifteen children are reported, dead. Many persons were injured. The inhabitants of the house were mostly Koreans.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 24, 24 December 1932, Page 7
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63BLAZE IN TOKIO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 24, 24 December 1932, Page 7
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