PATRIOTIC TEACHER.
DECLINES TO FLEE,
PREFERS TO GUARD EMPEROR'S,
PICTURE
Tokic, Feb. 9.
A schoolmaster in an island village adjacent to the Sakura-shima volcano refused to depart to the rescue steamer with the other residents. He preferred to guard the Emperor's picturo in the schoolhousse. He was forcibly removed with the picture, amid a rain of red-hot stones and ashes.
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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13391, 12 February 1914, Page 5
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60PATRIOTIC TEACHER. Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13391, 12 February 1914, Page 5
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