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WHERE TOKYO FIRE STARTED
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The Mitsukoshi department store —one of t he biggest department stores in the orient—is
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helpless in trying to check its spread.
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♦This is Asakusa Tower, one of the features at Asakusa
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lapsed with a huge loss of life in the earthquake. Big crowds
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This ideture ohows the fire which destroyed 3000 homes in Yokohama sev
e«;d years ago, making 25,000 homeless. The eye must multiply this scene many
times to achieve a picture of the. present havoc wrought by fire, quake and tidal
wave in Yokohama and Tokio.
TOKYO RAIL STATION DESTROYED?
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Reports fioni the Tokyo fire and earthquake say the rail communications from the capital to
the interior wore destroyed. This is one of the p rincipal stations In the’Japanes'e capital.
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East Relief workers were among those under fire and say they will appeal to the state department oi
the United States against the action of the Italian s.
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made homeless by fire and earthqhake.
STREET SCENE, YOKOHAMA
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Here is a typical street scene in Yokohama, Japan’s largest seaport, said to hape been destroyed
by fire and earthquake. Most of the houses are of flimsy construction.
YOKOHAMA’S “M OVIE ROW”
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Here is Yokohama’s “Movie Row,’’ officially known as Isosakicho dori. The ba
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STREET SCENE IN TOKYO
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This is “Movie Row” in Yokohama. The long banners sus
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ous shows, The flimsy construction of many of these native
buildings makes them highly inflammable.
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The American emoassy at' Tokyo, if spared, will be the