Casualty Lists Believed to Include 100 Deaths Tokyo, July 28, During a children's Red Cross inauguration ceremony at, Sapporo, Hokkaido, yesterday, at which 9,000 were present, about 160 children got sun-stroke, Several, it is reported, are seriously il.
Niigata, in north-western Japai has suitored a flood owing to heavy rain, resulting in many houses being inundated, Tr is reported that several persons have been drowned but owing to communication being interrupted details a not yet available July 29.
The official report on the floods in Niigata Prefecture (the result of continuous rains since July 27) states that the Shinano river burst wundating the country waka and destroying houses, bridges and communications, is badly damaged, requiring several days' repair, About 100 persons are believed to thave been drowned. Thirty bodies have been recovered.
The Rising Death Roll Suly 29.
The Police report that 754 houses have been washed away at Niigata fin north-western Japan, which wi flooded yesterday owing to heavy rain. Over 8,000 houses have been submerged and over 800 persons have been drowned or missing, About 33,000 acres of rice-field have been destroyed and the con-Jdition of the countryside is anid ta be misorable—Reuter,
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