MEMORIAL SERVICES
FOR 'QUAKE VICTIMS. TOKIO, Sept. 2. Memorial services were held hero Inst Wednesday for 100,000 who perished in the great earthquake of 1t)23, when Japan's capital was almost demolished by .shock and flames. The services were held at the site of the old clothing depot in tho Honjo district, where 43,000 were binned to death. At 11.58 a.m. temple bells were .rung and whistles blown to memorialise the oxa'C't moment at which disaster visited Tokjo. Members of the Earthquake Memoria". Association, stationed at every busy corner, solicited donations to the fund t„o erect a great monument hall in the".l lon jo district.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17156, 5 October 1926, Page 5
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104MEMORIAL SERVICES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17156, 5 October 1926, Page 5
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