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FLOOD VICTIMS (Rec. August 12, 10 a.m.) TOKIO, August 11. Torrential rains flooded sixty thousand houses at Osaka and ten thousand at Kyoto. Twenty were killed and thirty seriously injured. JAP-RUSSIAN DEAL TOKIO, August Id. The newspaper “Yomiuri” reports that the Soviet has contracted for four hundred thousand sacks of Japanese flour as part payment, in kind, for the Sino-Eastern railway. Further orders are anticipated. This largely accounts for the recent rise in Japanese wheat and flour. C A PTIV E MISS lONA RIES PEIPING, August 10. Prospects of the release of the missionaries Hayman and Bossliardt have greatlv improved, following on a large reduction in the amount demanded for their ransom.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1935, Page 5
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