The Archive · 1926

RUSSIA AFIRE

KURE TORPEDO WORKS

Seiyukai's Proposal of Vote of Unconfirmed Report of Destruc-

Non-Confidence tion of Plant Tokyo, Mar. 3.

Tt fs learned from: a reliable source that the Seiyukai is probably' proposing a vote of want of confidence in the Government's Russian policy shortly as. it considers that the Government ix not taking proper steps to prevent the spread of Soviet influence and propaganda' in Manchuria and Korea.

Tokyo, Mar. 2.

An unconfirmed report states that fire broke out this morning at the torpedo factory of the Kure Naval Arsenal, resviting in the destruc: building, the plant. One man tion of the main portion of the

is reported to have been seriously injured.—Reuter's Pacific Service.

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