BLIZZARD IN JAPAN
COUNTRY UNDER SNOW. . DEATHS AND DESTRUCTION. TOKIO, January 2. The storm has subsided, leaving many parts of the ndrth of Japan, under 10ft. o f . snow. Probably there will be 100 deaths, as many houses collapsed and many small ships are misismg. A thousand coolies are clearing a track to the Akakura spa, where the Princes Chichibu and Takamttsu, brothers of the Emperor, are snow-bound, in order to permit of their attendance at the New Year festivities at the Emperor's palace. Four Waseda University students who were ski-ing in the Japanese Alps and who were caught in a blizzard, perished. Se'ven of their comrades were rescued by volunteers from the town of Kino.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19280116.2.54
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 81, 16 January 1928, Page 6
Word Count
116BLIZZARD IN JAPAN Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 81, 16 January 1928, Page 6
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in