DRAMATIC FIRE IN TOKIO
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)
(BZSTSR'S TRLEOKAM.)
TOKIO, sth October. A fire destroyed the building in which the World Sunday School Convention was assembling. It started from an electrically-illuminated sign, "I Am the Light of tho World," which when switched on flared up. The buildings were destroyed in a few minutes. The,.preaence of mind of the director; who kept the choir of a thousand voices singing while the people departed, averted a catastrophe. It is believed everyone escaped. Over six hundred foreign delegates, .the majority of whom were Americans, were attending tho convention.
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 85, 7 October 1920, Page 7
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95DRAMATIC FIRE IN TOKIO Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 85, 7 October 1920, Page 7
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