Tokyo, Jan. 12, Widespread damage and dislocation of communications are now re-Ported as the result of the heavy, snowstorms and gales which swept {ha whole country over the week:
Many districts are experiencing the greatest wind velocity and the heaviest falls of snow that they have had for. the past several decades.
Hokkaido, in the north, reports tha: there has been a fall of snow feet in depth, while Shikoku, in south, which' is normally the mildest part of Japan, reports 16 inches of snow. Tokyo also is experiencing an unusually eeld snap, Material damage includes hundreds of telegraph poles down and large numbers of houses damaged, while from Aomori comes a report of a head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train during the height of a blizzard yenterday afternoon, resulting in people being injured.
number of other casualties are reported in various parts of the country and it is feared that the sales have also taken a heavy toll) at sea—Reuter,
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