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Pension for the Shah* The Persian Government offers the exShah a pension of £5900 a year provided that he quits Persia immediately and does not return. Great Fire at Osaka* Reuter’s Tokyo Agency reports that a great fire raged throughout Osaka on July 31. Thousands of buildings were destroyed, and their occupants rendered homeless. ’Die world-famous temple of Buddha was destroyed. Many of the inhabitants of the fireswept area perished in the flames.
Osaka is an important city of Central Japan, at the head of the Gulf of the same name. It is the commercial centre of the Empire, and the headquarters of the rice and tea trade. In addition to the magnificent temple, now destroyed, Osaka possesses a fine castle, the stones of which are of astonishing size, while the palace built in its precincts, and destroyed in 18G8, was perhaps the most magnificent structure in Japan.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIII, Issue 5, 4 August 1909, Page 7
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149ASIA. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIII, Issue 5, 4 August 1909, Page 7
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