OSAKA CONFLAGRATION.
MILES OF DEVASTATION. (By Telegraph.-I'rcss Association.-Copyright.) < • . Port Darwin, September 6. ;. Eastern files contain details of the recent great fire at Osaka, in' Japan../. / Tho fire/raged,for twenty-five hours, .arid,,i despito. the/efforts. of sit;hundred firemen;; two,thousand police,, and an: enormous.forte of' troops,: devastated an area of two and a' half mile's .iri;.lengtli and a 'quarter, to half a fiiilc in 'breadth. ■' f "'//■, .The law courts: wore ,destroyed, .together with many ! public -buildings, including : th'oGovernor's house, . schools/.' temples,;''arid museums. A largo number of, warehouses and thirteen thousand houses were also swept: away by the flames. v . . A ' strong-" wind, : . tho ; V lohg-cpntinucd drought, and a ".poor .fire brigddo equipment were, factors assisting, in, the disaster.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 605, 7 September 1909, Page 5
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114OSAKA CONFLAGRATION. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 605, 7 September 1909, Page 5
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