TOKIO FIRE
IMPERIAL PORTRAITS SAVED AND VALUABLE RECORDS. Reuter'- Telegram. TOKIO, September 20. The Upper House Chamber was In a mass of names when the firemen arrived. They succeeded in breaking a way to the Throne Room and saving the Imperial portraits. < They then concentrated their efforts on the Lower House Chamber, from which records and documents were secured before the flames mastered the fire-fighters. Both buildings were temporary wooden structures. They will be replaced by temporary buildings, until the new permanent structure, which has been under construction since 1921, is completed in 1928. Carpenters repairing the Parliament Houses declare that the fire was caused by short circuit. INCENDIARIES’ WORK PRINCE’S HOUSE BURNED. The residence of Prince Tokugawa, President of the House of Peers, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at a million yen, 1 including historic objects of art. Closely following the fire in the House of Diet, -it leads to the suspicion that members of an association of former social outcasts are seeking revenge for the acts of Tokugawa and the Shoguns. *
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12249, 22 September 1925, Page 8
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176TOKIO FIRE New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12249, 22 September 1925, Page 8
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