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JAP. SUBMARINES COLLIDE [by CABLE —PEIBB ASSN.--COPYRIGHT.] TOKIO, February 3. The Navy Office announces that the Japanese submarine 163 was sunk y-es-terday- morning after colliding with another submarine in the Bungo Straits during manoeuvres. Rescue work is proceeding. The 163 was launched at Sasebo in 1928. Her extreme length is 331 feet, and she carries a complement of 56. The sunken submarine had a. crew of 50.
VOLCANO ACTIVE. (Received February 4, 10 a.m.) TOKIO. February 3. Mount Asama is in violent eruption. Explosions shattered windows in the town of Maebashi. CONFERENCE PROPOSED. (Received February- 4, 11.30 a.m.) TOKIO. February ,3. Mr. Arita told the House of Representatives that it might be necessary to call an international conference at Tokio, if there was no other way of making third Powers understand Japan’s attitude to China. He expressed the opinion, however, that there should be other means of dispelling misunderstandings.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 February 1939, Page 6
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