JAPANESE DISASTER
HUGE FUNERAL PYRE TOTAL KNOWN DEAD 1839 KOBK. April 1 Hakodate is now the scene of another fire, consequent on tlie disastrous conflagration which destroyed SO per cent of the city on March 21. Hundreds of unclaimed bodies arc being cremated on an enormous pyre, 011 the site of which a memorial tower is to be erected containing their ashes. With a number of bodies washed up by the sea, the known dead now total 1839. Divers are still recovering corpses. Wholesale inoculations arc being given to citizens as a precaution against epidemics.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21765, 3 April 1934, Page 9
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95JAPANESE DISASTER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21765, 3 April 1934, Page 9
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