FIRE TRAGEDY
FOURTEEN LIVES LOST. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 9.25 p.m.) Tokio, December 23. A large wooden building in a congested quarter of Tokio, housing 54 families of labourers, was burnt before dawn. Fourteen are dead and many were injured. THIRTY REPORTED MISSING. (Rec, 11.5 p.m.) Tokio, December 23. Thirty persons are missing and are believed to have been burnt besides adults and 15 children reported dead. The inhabitants were mostly Koreans.
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Southland Times, Issue 21897, 24 December 1932, Page 5
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73FIRE TRAGEDY Southland Times, Issue 21897, 24 December 1932, Page 5
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