HAKODATE FUNERAL PYRE
UNCLAIMED BODIES BURNED. DEATH ROLL NUMBERS 1839. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Kobe, Ajril 1. Hakodate is the scene of another fire. Hundreds of unclaimed bodies are being cremated on an enormous pyre on the site of which a memorial tower will be erected containing the ashes. With the number of bodies washed up by the sea the known dead now total 1839. Divers are still recovering corpses. Wholesale inoculation against epidemics is being carried out.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1934, Page 5
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