Widespread Damage With a Extensive Toll of Life Tokyo, June 2.
Storms in various parts of the: country and in neighbouring seas are reported to have taken a heavy toll of life in the past few days.
During artillery practice near' Takata in Northern Japan, 16 soldiers were struck by lightning. Two are on the point of death, In Kagoshima prefecture, a post-office, police-station and three houses are reported to have been wrecked and about 800 buildings on the foreshore flooded.
Anxiety is felt regarding the fate of a small coastal steamer carrying about 50 _passongers, which missing Another small, vessel foundered Otomari: ix Saghalien in a storm, Eleven of the crew' of 21. wore drowned.—Reuter.
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