FIRE AND TYPHOON IN JAPAN.

Shannon News, 22 September 1925, Page 4

FIRE AND TYPHOON IN JAPAN.

PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS DESTROYED. •DAMAGE A MILLION YEN. LONDON, Sept. 19. Reuter’s Told© correspondent states that a fire destroyed the Diet buildings. Both houses were gutted. (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) The fire is believed to have been due to the carelssnss of workmen carryng out repairs: in the Upper House. The flames spread rapidly, enveloping both Diet buildings, but as there was no wind the other buildings threatened were spared. Troops and police controlled the large crowd. After, raging fiercely for more than an hour the flames were controlled though they are still smouldering.

Valuable documents are reported to have been mainly saved, but the library was completely' destroyed and the buildings gutted. The damage is estimated in the neighbourhood of a million yen. A Cabinet meeting to-morrow will discuss reconstruction of temporary buildings. The typhoon swept the south western part of Japan from Shikeku to Kynsru in the vicinity of Osaka. Communciations are partially interrupted. There were a few casualties. The rivers are overflowing in various localities.