300 BELIEVED DEAD AND 14,000 HOMELESS IN JAPANESE LANDSLIDE
b... , (Eeceived 13, 10.50 a.m.)' TOKIO, Nov. 12. It is believed that 300 people perished and that 14,000 are homelees m the result of a landslide on - Komenashiyama Mountain, in the Nagato preiecture. Fifteen hundred flremen are fighting flames. They are knee-deep in snow, mud and rocks amid incessant snow f alls. The task is more difficult owing to explosions igniting sulphur heaps.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 5
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