Osaka, June 20.
Rains -sivee Sunday,' culminating in torrential downpours during the Inst two days, are causing floods in a large number of districts: throughout westera Japan, especially in the province of Kyushu.
't-appeara that the Prefecture of Kumamoto is suffering most. The area flooded in this Prefecture it~ nearly 70,000 acres while 1,500. houses are reported to be' inundated. In' the city of Kumamoto ' 2,500 hhowses are inundated.
The Préfectores of Fukuoka-ind Soga. ate. suitoring from similar:
4000" soldiers, "who. had The Prefecture of Hiroshima: is that ib, will exc while the toll of deaths
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