Great Fire in Japan

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4444, 3 August 1909, Page 2

Great Fire in Japan

London, August 1. Reuter’s Tokio Agency reportsthat a ffreat fire raged throughout Osaka yes Say Sands of buildings were destroyed, the occupants being rendere homeless. The wo,ld famous temple,of Buddha was destroyed. M “"y J? inhabitants of the fire swept area perish in the flames. . pon f ra; i TOsoka i« an important city of centra Japan at the head of the gull of the same name, and is the commercial centre of the Empire It is the headquarters of the rice and P tea trade- In addition to the magmfrent temple already mentioned as now troyed, Osaka possesses a fine c ® stle » , t .. stones of which are of astonishing size, the palace built in its preoints and destroy** in 1868 was perhaps the most magmfi structure in Japan. Ed.J