The Archive · 1923

The Destruction in Tokio

Shanghai, Sept. 5.

A special despatch to the Eastern News Agency from tha Osaka "Asahi" reports The aeroplanes, belonging to the Osaka "Asahi," which left Tokio on Sept. 2 to inspect the catastrophe in the districts of Tokio and Yokohama, yesterday have returned to Shidzuoka. Photographs taken reveal that the capital has been completely devastated except a portion of the hilly districts, namely, tthe districts destroyed are Fukagawa, Honjo, Asakusa, Kyobashi, Nihonbashi, Kanda and Kojima-chi, the vicinity of Shiba Park, the whole region of Tikura East Asabu, the part from Teranomon to Akasaka Mitsuke, leeding to Yotsuya and Ushigome, the district east of the Imperial) University in

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