"Japan Advertiser " Destroyed by Fire: Second Disaster in 7 Years Tokyo, Tokyo's famous American newspaper, The fire was apparently due to effective "electric wiring. It broke cot at 420 am, after the morning edition was off the press. The Building was then deserted and there were no casualties. Fi neighbouring geisha houses, kowever, were also destroyed.
The loss is estimated at Yen 5,000,000, which is partially cover-2 By insurance, ate Flier quired, the paper in. 1 developed it into one of the best-Hnown American journals outside '6f the United States. It was wiped out in 1923 by the earthquake, but Mr. Fleisher courageously re-built. Hig future plans are. uncertain—Reuter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.
