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FIRE AND FLOOD IN JAPAN.

HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. (Per Mail Steamer at Auckland). TOKIO, August 28. Reports from inundated districts continue to come in, bringing with them the saddest pictures of houses washed away, and the drowning of old and young. One village in the Yamanashi prefecture was buried under mud, and five hundred were drowned in the vicinity. In some places communication was cut, and it is difficult to obtain supplies of food. When full reports are received it is expected the loss of life will prove to be heavy. The supply of fish and vegetables for the Tokio markets has been interrupted since Sunday. The flood also washed away some connecting pipes of the Yokohama water system, causing a partial water famine. A conflagration at Hakodate, on Monday, destroyed thirteen thousand houses, including all the foreign consulates excepting the American, and most of the public buildings.

Three hundred lives were lost,

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8546, 1 October 1907, Page 6

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FIRE AND FLOOD IN JAPAN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8546, 1 October 1907, Page 6

FIRE AND FLOOD IN JAPAN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8546, 1 October 1907, Page 6

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