FATAL TIDAL WAVE.
ON EAST COAST OF KOREA. By Telegraph—Pres* Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. C*bl® Association. TOKIO. April 14. Four hundred persons are missing as the result of a tidal wave on the eastern coast of Ko-rea. The total number of lives lost is unknown, but it is believed to be large Korea is almost entirely at. agricultural country. The cultivated area is about- 10.599.000 acres. The chief crops are rice, wheat, beans and grain, besides tobacco and cotton. Korea was annexed to the Empire o-f Japan iu 1910.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17017, 16 April 1923, Page 3
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