GREAT FIRE IN TOKIO.
. —-—• AT SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONGRESS CHOIR AVERTS CATASTROPHE (Received 9.30 p.m.) Router. TOKIO, Oct 5. A fire destroyed the building in which the World Sunday-school Convention had assembled. It started from an electrically > illuminated sign, " I am the fight of the world," which, when switched on, flarec ! up. The building was destroyed. The presence of mind of the director of" t j choir of 1000 voices, averted a catas , trophe. He kept the choir singing while the people departed. It is believed thai everyone escaped. Over six hundred foreign delegates, the majority Americans are attending the convention.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17595, 7 October 1920, Page 7
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