Mar, 9.
The latest Home Office report places the total casualties at 4,774, fof which 3,609 were persons K'lled {in Kyoto prefecture.
The earthquake at Tangs, it has now been established, exceeds, both [as regards severity and the extent for damage, by far that at Tajima in, 1925.
The latest official report show: that the mumber of houses which collapsed or were burned down total nearly 5,000; but the province Tango economically is unimportant, the only industry being the production of silk crepe entirely for frame consumption and not for ex-ort.
Commercisl and industrial centres ike Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and Nagoya
official invest shock but} casualties and damage were {nsignificant. The people are by no means depressed oF perturbed and Jare actively engaged in business, Purther Tale of Damage Replying to interpellations in. the Upper House to-day, the Home Min. ister stated that the latest offic reports show that 1,699 persons were Killed and 4,548 houses destroyed by the earthquake, exclusive of the districts of Miyazu and Mineyama, from which detailed information was not yet available owing to the d truction of communications, According to the latest report, the number of deaths as a result of the earthquake in the Tango district total 2,600. Four thousand persons were injured,
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