GALE AND FIRE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 April 1926, Page 5

GALE AND FIRE

JAPANESE VISITATION.

MANY HOUSES BURNT FISHING BOATS SUFFER. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. TOKIO, April 21. Owing to a violent gale which swept over Central Japan several minor outbreaks, fanned by the hurricane, developed into a disastrous conflagration. The fire, which broke out in the Nodachiba Prefecture, reduced to ashes two large factories and 130 houses.

The loss is estimated at one million ven.

A dozen casualties are reported from a village in the Nagano Prefecture, where 140 houses were destroyed, whilst from the Fukui Prefecture comes a report that a woman and a child were burnt' to death in a village where 140 houses were burnt.

Other smaller conflagrations occurred in various localities, and numerous fishing boat tragedies are reported, including sixty vessels of Fukui missing.

HUNDRED FISHERMEN MISSING

MANY HOUSES SUBMERGED. TOKIO, April 20. Owing to storms sweeping (the entire coast of the Japan Sea yesterday, over one hundred fishermen are reported to be missing. The local authorities at Miaiizuru, assisted by a destroyer, are engaged in a search. Other localities also suffered, the damage, including a large bridge, which was blown down. At J ncbinoseki, in the Iwate prefecture, two hundred houses near Sapporo were submerged.. A, boat containing seven members of a wedding parity, off the Kurile islands, capsized and all were drowned. —Rleuter.