JAPANESE TRAGEDY
COLLAPSE OF BRIDGE. FIFTY PEOPLE MISSING. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. TOKIO, August 12. Owing to the sudden collapse of a bridge crowded with merrymakers who wore watching a lantern festival at Nojumazaki Japau), over fifty persons are missing, and believed to bo drowned. Recent heavy rains had swelled the river, and only a few were rescued before the rapid current swept off the remainder.—Reuter.
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Evening Star, Issue 19327, 13 August 1926, Page 5
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