A DISASTROUS FIRE
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ENORMOUS DAMAGES,
SIXTY THOUSAND PEOPLE HOME-
LESS,
Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright.
. TOKIO, August 30. JBeeetved August. 30, at 10.52 p.m.) Tlio losses consequent on the Hakodate amount to £3,000,000. Sixty thousand people have been rendered homeless.
Hakodate, Ihrco-fonrtha of which was deslroyed by tho fire, i s a seaport town and treaty port (opmcd to commerce in 1854) in •lapjjn, and is situated on a peninsula at the souUj-west extremity 0 f Yezo, at the foot of a bold wek, \yhioh has often been compared 55 700 r " Tl '° r ' opulat:io " in 1890 w as
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13996, 31 August 1907, Page 9
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