TENEMENT FIRE
HEAVY DEATH ROLE TRAGEDY IN' TOKIO. Press AssuriiTilju Electric Telegraph—Copyright TOKIO, Friday. A large wooden building in a congested quarter of Tokio, housing fiftyfour families of labourers, was burnt before dawn to-day. Fourteen persons are dead. Many were injured. According to later reports, thirty are missing and are believed to have been burnt. Besides adults fifteen children are reported dead. The inhabitants of the house were mostly Koreans.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 December 1932, Page 5
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