A heavy avalanche fell just behind a passenger train near Gifu, covering the railway track and halting traffic for several hours while workren cleared the tracks and rushed repairs, Another avalanche knocked a passenger train off the tracks near Takasaki, 100 miles north of Tokyo, injuring several passengers. The four hundred persons on board the train werd rescued, none having been fatally injured, A third avalanche sent six skiers hurling into a deep canyon near Nikko. Rescue workers found them
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