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Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1922, Page 2

HIG HUSH FIRES. VANCOUVER July 7. A wind last Thursday night fanned some bush fires along the British Columbian Coast into a destructive conflagration. Tlie fires were caused by u week’s drought. Tiie fires caused the burning of a number of small settlements, summer resorts and fishing villages including a returned soldier settlement at Merrill®, on Vancouver Island, where there are fifty families now homeless, The ioss of standing timber in the province of British Columbia, already amounts to two hundred and fifty thou, sand pounds. SEMINOV IN JAPAN. TOKIO, July 3. The Siberian anti- Bolshevik leader, Seminoy, who secured permission, after much pleading, to land at Ngasaki, to visit a hot spring, has been landed in to a lawsuit with a Japanese firm which furnished five thousand pair of shoes to Seminov’s forces The firm had an agent on the wharf to present the,bill, and to press for payment, ‘ 1